Pope Francis

If the historic bill passes the senate, Argentina's president has promised to sign it into law.

• By Jack Denton

In a new essay, the pope calls for intensified regulation of the "sophisticated technologies" of financial markets.

• By Jack Denton

The pontiff calls out Trump—and the American public—on an instance of what he deems unchristian ethical inconsistency.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Pope Francis celebrates an open air mass at Contecar—Cartagena's maritime terminal—during the last day of his visit to Colombia on September 10th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Pope Francis blesses the crowd attending the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on July 23rd, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Two years after Pope Francis launched Laudato Si, the Vatican's plea to save the Earth, Trump rejected its tenets and the Paris Agreement. But people of all faiths are unified globally to beat climate change.

• By Justin Catanoso

Exorcism and entertainment: How the distortion of a Catholic rite became a cottage industry

• By Dan Shewan

Are they just part of another imagined community?

• By Lisa Wade

The Archdiocese of Chicago is acting on the pope’s environmental message.

• By Susan Cosier

Compassion has often counted as a "maverick" quality in the Holy See. Now Republicans are calling it political.

• By Ted Scheinman

Combatting climate change means bringing together experts from a lot of different fields.

• By Francie Diep

Many Catholic colleges leave low-income students with big debts. And wealthy Catholic schools that provide generous support don’t enroll many poor students.

• By Annie Waldman

The pillager of California's natives has enough memorials already—and his sainthood has no place in the contemporary Catholic Church.

• By Laura Turner

There is past precedent for the production of passports for refugees by an international body, and now is the time to use it.

• By Michael Soussan

When it comes to climate change, Pope Francis and many other world religious leaders are cut from the same cloth.

• By Nicole Greenfield

The pontiff’s style is as radical as his message.

• By Ted Scheinman

Pope Francis' new climate change document could be a major boon to environmentalists.

• By Kate Wheeling

What Pope Francis’ off-the-cuff comments about punching the murdered Charlie Hebdo cartoonists can tell us about the long history of the Catholic Church's relationship with secularism.

• By J.R. Velasco

The "Pope Francis Effect" hasn't caught on in the U.S., according to a Pew study.

• By Marc Herman

The most important thing about Pope Francis: He’s blowing up the Catholic Church’s bridge back to medieval pomp, purity, and authority.

• By Benjamin J. Dueholm