Tag: Pope Francis

ROME  -- Celebrating the launch of the Scholas International Educational Movement and its environmental project, Pope Francis encouraged young people, especially women, to lead...

By Courtney Mares Catholic News Agency ROME -- John Paul II began his pontificate with the words “Be not afraid” — a phrase that the Polish...

PHILADELPHIA -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Auxiliary Bishop Edward M. Deliman of Philadelphia, who is 75, the age at which canon...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said he is convinced God is calling his peers -- older Catholics -- to become "artisans of the revolution...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said he wants LGBT Catholics to know that God is a father who "does not disown any of his...

"We do not get dignity from power, or money or culture. We get dignity from work," said Pope Francis in a homily for the...

VATICAN CITY -- Meeting new recruits to the Swiss Guard, Pope Francis thanked the young men for their diligent and important work serving the...

VATICAN CITY — The leaders of religious orders around the world are taking very seriously not only preparations for the Synod of Bishops assembly...

VATICAN CITY -- Warning that the Russian Orthodox patriarch should not "turn himself into Putin's altar boy," Pope Francis also said he would like...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis asked his safeguarding commission to provide an annual audit of what the church is doing to protect minors and...