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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis acknowledged Saturday that he could no longer travel as he used to…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis announced the first appointments Tuesday under his newly reformed Vatican bureaucracy, tapping a trusted…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday blasted Catholics who, hewing to old-school versions of liturgy such as the Latin…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis prayed for peace in Ukraine in a ceremony Friday that harked back to a century-old…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — In his New Year’s wishes to the world, Pope Francis encouraged people Saturday to focus on…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis urged Vatican cardinals, bishops and bureaucrats to embrace humility this Christmas season, saying their pride,…

BALTIMORE (AP) — U.S. Catholic bishops overwhelmingly approved on Wednesday a long-anticipated document on Communion that stops short of calling…

While some U.S. Catholic bishops continue to denounce President Joe Biden for his support of legal abortion, they are likely…

ROME (AP) — Face to face at the Vatican, President Joe Biden held extended and highly personal talks with Pope…

ROME (AP) — The Catholic Church’s foremost research institute studying sexual abuse of minors is expanding its mandate to also…

Pope Francis took sudden steps on July 16 to curtail the traditional Latin Mass, in an abrupt reversal of his predecessor’s…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has changed church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests…

In a growing consensus, religious leaders at the forefront of the anti-abortion movement in the United States are telling their…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of…

Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington and once the bishop of the Belleville diocese, is now the first African-American Catholic cardinal.…

Catholics split almost evenly in supporting Donald Trump or Joe Biden in the presidential election. Now they’re sharply divided over…