Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

Others are expected to last ... pope explained. Every Wednesday and Sunday, Pope Francis persistently calls for peace in the Middle East, Ukraine, Myanmar, and beyond. During his Urbi et Orbi ...

The blessing of holy water usually takes place on Sunday, in keeping with the rite given in the Sacramentary. But when the blessing of water takes place outside Mass ... On the last and greatest ...

In the last chapter, Pope Francis imagines the future of the Church, which “will continue forward, because I am but a step.” “I dream of a papacy that is increasingly more service and ...

Pope Francis has called on parents of children who identify as ... In addition to his messaging on LGBT issues, Francis' stance on the Traditional Latin Mass has also angered many Catholics. Last year ...

Pope Francis presides at Mass on the Sunday of the Word of God ... “Yet,” he said, “wars, injustice, pain and death will not have the final word over the peoples of the earth and our history: for the ...

Pope Francis installs 40 lay men and women from 11 countries, including Albania, Argentina, Brazil, and the Philippines, to the ministry of lector during Mass celebrating Sunday of the Word of God and ...

A distinguished theologian, Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, 80, was the architect of the Catechism of the Catholic ...

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) – The head of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council (TPC), Leslie Voltaire, held a private audience with Pope Francis last weekend, according to an official ...

On Wednesday, Pope Francis expressed his “extreme concern” for the worsening security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Rebels belonging to the M23 group – which most observers ...