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Shortly after the new list was published, some Italian media outlets speculated that Cardinal Luis Ladaria’s decision to opt out of the synod was related to the case of Slovene Jesuit Father Marko...

As Pope Francis heads to Marseille this weekend for a summit on the Mediterranean, two towering issues will loom large, and those are the ongoing migration crisis amid a new surge in arrivals to...

The audience and the statement from the Rome diocese, they said, demonstrate that “the church isn’t interested at all in the victims and those who ask for justice.”

Pope Francis has condemned the use of “conventional weapons” against civilian targets in a message to Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson the day after a warehouse in Ukraine containing several tons of...

“Pope Francis recalled his meeting with Patriarch Kirill in Havana warmly, and expressed the hope that it will not be the last, that he can see the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church again,” Ivan...

In a keynote speech to the Clinton Global Initiative Monday, Pope Francis stressed the need to foster a culture of encounter and global fraternity in a world marred by war and what he said is a...

The yellowed letter, dated Dec. 14, 1942, was written by an anti-Nazi German Jesuit named Father Lothar König and addressed to the personal secretary of Pope Pius XII, another German cleric named...

“The image of thousands and thousands of children who, for the merit of Pope Francis, are returned to their families will enter, we’re certain, in the history books,” wrote veteran political...