Pope Francis

The Catholic Church's youth rally has drawn 200,000 pilgrims from around the world to Panama City.

Pope Francis speaks from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on January 13th, 2019.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Are they just part of another imagined community?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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