By signing the decree in the sainthood cause of the Georgia martyrs Jan. 27, the pope cleared the way for their beatification ...

Enthusiasm of response surprises friars, prior says, adding that the bell is ‘reminding people of God in the midst of their ...

A National Holy Hour for Life followed the Mass. The morning of Jan. 24, a Mass was celebrated in the Great Upper Church to ...

More than 5,000 students, families and other pro-life Catholics pack into the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in ...

"We're called to witness to his life and light, in particular for the preborn, who may not be born and who may never see the ...

An Italian publisher announced the global release in January of “Hope,” a book it described as Pope Francis’s autobiography, which the pope apparently planned to have released only after his death.

The filmmaker’s latest stars Daniel Craig as William Lee, a fictionalized stand-in for author William S. Burroughs, whose slender novel the movie is based on. (The author wrote the book in the ...

ROME (AP) — An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret 2013 conclave that elected him pope and the resistance he has encountered ever since, in his ...

Overwhelmingly, readers wanted to hear from the spiritual leaders of the archdiocese. The top four online articles were statements by Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., about major events, ...

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel on Sunday under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the ...

Pope Francis is the 266th Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was elected by the conclave of cardinals on March 13, 2013.