Leo will disappear further this weekend when he begins a six-week vacation in his first break since his historic election May ...

A French archbishop has appointed as the new president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

While some victims have praised the commission's efforts, it has also been roiled by the resignations of several of its ...

PARIS (OSV News) — Over four days, from June 26 to 29, the French Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Paray-le-Monial was concluding celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the apparitions of Jesus to ...

Many places in Michigan, including cities and streets, have French-origin names, a remnant of the state's past. Here's what to know.

The name for a northern Michigan town and county is after French settler Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, a Jesuit ...

In 1673, a French Jesuit priest by the name of Jacques Marquette and his homie, Canadian explorer and fur trader Louis Jolliet, became the first white men on record to see what would eventually ...

Pope Francis was the first Jesuit pope of the Catholic Church. What is a Jesuit? The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic order founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola committed to ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humility and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives over climate change and ...

Pope Francis, who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor, died Monday.

The first Latin American and first Jesuit pope was also the first to choose the name Francis, in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and the impoverished.