A 10-month project to restore the giant bronze-and-wood canopy in the middle of St Peter's Basilica is nearing completion, ...

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When Pope Francis appoints new Catholic cardinals, as he did on Sunday, the move is often described as the pontiff pushing to ...

The pope just announced a new consistory that will take place Dec. 8 appointing 21 new cardinals from around the world.

ANALYSIS: Here are six angles for understanding who the new cardinals are and why Pope Francis might have picked them.

Pope Francis announced he would create 21 new cardinals Dec. 8, including a 99-year-old former nuncio and the 44-year-old ...

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In his letter to Catholics in the Middle East, the Holy Father expressed his closeness with those “who dwell in the lands of ...

On the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis expressed his solidarity with all those ...

Participants in the Synod on Synodality spent two days before the start of its final session in a closed retreat that ended ...

The study groups are investigating questions such as how to improve seminary education, ministry to LGBTQ Catholics and ...

On the anniversary of Oct. 7, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, I do not want to talk about peace or ...