African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, observers say, with numerous visits and a message of mercy inspiring ...

A week into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV has affirmed the Catholic Church s teachings about the sanctity of human life and ...

Eastern Christian communities erupted in celebration at the election of the new pontiff on May 8, but many wondered about ...

Ilo pointed to his native Nigeria, where Catholicism has been in some ways outpaced by an explosion of Pentecostal Christianity. “One thing Pope Francis did was to animate and empower young ...