The most significant part of the law, a permanent version of a 2019 measure, may be its impact on the “lay faithful,” who ...

Pope Francis on March 25 made permanent his 2019 experimental law on clergy sex abuse and expanded the law to include lay ...

The Vatican and Pope Francis unveiled a new slate of legislation on Saturday that updates existing rules within the Catholic Church to penalize coverups of sexual abuse and hold perpetrators ...

Some say the Jesuit pope causes confusion because of his unpredictability, but he is actually consistent and predictable when ...

Pope Francis on Saturday updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding senior churchmen accountable for covering up sexual abuse cases, expanding it to cover lay Catholic leaders and reaffirming that ...

The Vatican has published updated rules for fighting against sexual abuse of minors and vulnerable adults, expanding measures ...

Pope Francis has spoken with a unique voice on the dignity of human life over the 10 years of his papacy, providing a distinctive framework that connects grave evils like abortion with society’s ...

Disney will release a new documentary April 5 titled “The Pope Answers,” airing an extended conversation between Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis is asked, to which he later replies ... In a 2019 interview on Évole’s Salvados, a TV show, Francis clarified the Church’s position that homosexual “tendencies are not sin … sin is acting ...

Some of the Pope’s most well-known statements have been from interviews with Évole. In a 2019 interview on Évole’s Salvados show, Francis clarified the Church’s position that homosexual ...