The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced in April that it was ending its decades-old partnership with the federal ...

Many Indigenous Catholics saw an ally in Pope Francis who championed their causes, asked forgiveness for the church’s ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...

Francis also allowed ordinary priests — not just bishops — to absolve Catholic women who had intentionally terminated a pregnancy. He didn’t approve ... from some Native American groups ...

Catholic leaders across Wisconsin are mourning and remembering Pope Francis Monday morning as a humble servant who cared for the poor and the marginalized. Francis died Monday at the Vatican, a ...

After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic ... bishop of the Buenos Aires diocese. He became archbishop six years later and focused on ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of the LGBTQ Catholic advocacy group DignityUSA, was in Rome on Thursday when Cardinal Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native who holds both U.S. and ...

Bells tolled in Catholic churches from his native Argentina to the ... In other firsts, he approved an agreement with China over bishop nominations that had vexed the Vatican for decades, met ...

(OSV News/Reuters/Kevin Lamarque) Catholic Charities ... in federal funding — the bishops requested. Arlington's Catholic Charities said Virginia's Office of New Americans was "aware of the ...