Over 170 Christians were reportedly killed during Lent and Holy Week in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, with at least 72 deaths ...

A conclave only begins to answer the question of who a pope will truly be.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five children in Dec. 17, ...

Feb. 21, 2001: Elevated to cardinal by St. John Paul II ... for the sins and crimes of the Catholic Church against Indigenous peoples during the colonial-era conquest of the Americas.

Here are some key events in the life of the man born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the first pope from the Americas, who became a groundbreaking figure in the history of the Catholic Church: Dec. 17 ...

February 21, 2001: Elevated to cardinal by St. John Paul II ... Apologizes in Bolivia for the sins and crimes of the Catholic Church against Indigenous peoples during the colonial-era conquest of the ...

SIMOJOVEL, Mexico — At a recent service in the remote southern Mexican community of Simojovel, Catholic and Mayan symbolism ...

Feb. 21, 2001: Elevated to cardinal by St. John Paul II ... for the sins and crimes of the Catholic Church against Indigenous peoples during the colonial-era conquest of the Americas.

Feb. 21, 2001: Elevated to cardinal by St. John Paul II ... for the sins and crimes of the Catholic Church against Indigenous peoples during the colonial-era conquest of the Americas.

Feb. 21, 2001: Elevated to cardinal by St. John Paul II ... for the sins and crimes of the Catholic Church against Indigenous peoples during the colonial-era conquest of the Americas.

Permanent deacons who minister in the Diocese of Rochester and elsewhere are celebrating milestone anniversaries of ...