El Salvador president presses for beatification of assassinate...

I finished this epistolary memoir the same day that the conclave of cardinals chose the new pope. Watching that white smoke billow from the chimney of the Vatican, I and millions of other viewers were moved by this mysterious, ancient form of ...

VATICAN CITY Pope Francis fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped liberate a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican's insistence that no such ...

When it comes to deadly viruses, what's in a name? A religious fraternity in Rio considers the election of Pope Francis, the first pontiff to take the name of St Francis of Assisi, a confirmation of their beliefs in poverty and simplicity. ...

VATICAN CITY — El Salvador's president meets with Pope Francis on Thursday amid mounting indications that the stars have finally aligned to move slain Archbishop Oscar Romero onto the first key stage on the path toward possible sainthood. The ...

Over the last week, Pope Francis has launched a crescendo of attacks on the global financial system and what he calls a "cult of money" that does not help the poor. The two-month-old papacy of Francis — the Argentine-born Jorge Bergoglio — is ...

Here is a translation of the question-and-answer session with Pope Francis held on May 18, 2013, the vigil of Pentecost, with ecclesial movements and communities. After the greeting of the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New ...

In recent remarks that were stunning and profound, Pope Francis harshly criticized what he called "the cult of money" and condemned what he called the "dictatorship" of economies that are socially unjust and morally unfair. These remarks, and ...

As Rachel Ray is to cooking and Rachel Zoe is to style, Rosie Pope hopes to be to motherhood. And, as the overwhelmed faces on the moms-to-be at the New York Baby Show this past weekend seem to point out, the industry is asking for a guru. Amid the ...

With the swipe of a pontifical finger, a new Catholic news app for smartphones and tablets was launched on May 17. At the conclusion of an audience with national directors of mission societies from around the world, Father Andrew Small, national ...