Journalists and Vatican officials who have covered multiple pontificates describe the challenges, secrecy and unprecedented ...

Pope Francis’ frailty was on full view as he left Rome’s Gemelli hospital after five weeks battling pneumonia that nearly killed him.

Steeped in the Christian tradition, the pontiff taught that men and women are different to their core, revealing something ...

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Pope Francis has spent 18 full days at Rome’s Gemelli hospital recovering from double pneumonia. It’s by far the longest hospitalization of his 12-year papacy.

Weigel’s keynote address followed panel discussions on the Catholic approach to antisemitism throughout history and since the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks.

As a teenager and women’s-studies student in college, I assumed the Catholic Church had retrograde views about women. Providential encounters with Catholics drew me back to church, and before my ...

Pope John Paul II, who later became St. John Paul II, blesses a baby during an annual baptism liturgy in the Vatican’s ...

There is no office in the world that is in any way comparable to the pope of the ... of social justice causes more than political or ecclesiastical causes. Much like John Paul II, Francis has ...

The church’s ancient defense of women’s dignity proffered by St. Augustine doesn’t need modern ideologies.

The year closed with John Paul named Time magazine’s Man of the Year for 1994. In January 1995 he went to Manila for the ...