Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said a trip to his native Argentina remains on his schedule and that he has been encouraged to travel...

VATICAN CITY -- The Catholic Church, in pursuit of "pastoral prudence," should discern if there are ways of giving blessings to homosexual persons that...

VATICAN CITY -- Four months after soliciting public input on the development of safeguarding guidelines, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors said...

VATICAN CITY -- Ukraine's ambassador to the Holy See gave Pope Francis a stuffed bear that survived a Russian missile strike as a symbol...

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM PORTUGAL -- After a five-day trip to Portugal, which recently came to terms with its own clerical sex abuse...

LISBON, Portugal -- A Catholic Church that has grown weary in countries shaken by the clerical sexual abuse crisis and cultural trends toward secularism...

VATICAN CITY -- Highlighting the Mediterranean as the sea that connects nations, cultures and religions across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, Pope Francis...

VATICAN CITYS -- The Jesuits have expelled from their religious order the well-known artist and preacher Father Marko Rupnik for refusing to uphold his...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis' special envoy went to Washington to explore what the Vatican's role could be in bringing about an end of...

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican is developing a plan to return to Ukraine children illegally deported to Russia but is not jockeying to mediate...