ROME -- Pope Francis is installing 21 new cardinals, many of whom are key figures in his reform agenda: A Dominican preacher who acted as the spiritual father for Francis' recent gathering of bishops, ...

The bishops of Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala are inviting the faithful to participate in a day of ...

Pope Francis, who heads the Catholic Church, has doubled down on his commitment to the environment with a new electric ...

Asia, like Africa, is a growth area for the Catholic church. In Georgetown University’s ranking of attendance at mass, ...

Pope Francis sent a pastoral letter to Catholics in Nicaragua, offering support amid ongoing repression by President Daniel ...

Often homilies are so long, 20 or 30 minutes, that people will go outside to smoke a cigarette and come back, the pope said.

The Vatican on Wednesday unveiled a new open-top popemobile, an all-electric Mercedes-Benz that Pope Francis will use when he ...

Pope Francis was seen inspecting his latest "Popemobile" at the Vatican Wednesday, the first all-electric version of the ...

Catholics exiled from Nicaragua are expressing their gratitude for the recent letter of encouragement Pope Francis sent to ...

In a moving letter, Pope Francis expressed his closeness with the people of Nicaragua as Central American bishops called for ...

Pope Francis has written a moving letter to Catholics in Nicaragua to express his closeness, affection, and incessant prayer.