Attendees at the Mass shouted "¡Viva el Papa León!" ("Long live Pope Leo!") and "¡El papa es chiclayano!" ("The pope is a ...

Pope Francis arrives on the popemobile to meet with members of the Comunione e Liberazione (Communion and Liberation ... into a mobile health unit to serve the children of Gaza, officials said ...

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Before he died, Pope Francis donated one of his popemobiles to be converted into a mobile health unit to serve the children ... e Liberazione (Communion and Liberation ...

"When you say I’m a pastor or I’m a minister, then people believe that the things ... might be praying for someone. It might be serving communion but a lot of times it’s just 'all right ...

Today, he posted a picture of Leo to his Instagram grid ... John Hoeven, R-N.D., said he has been telling people there would never be an American pope. “If you’d have told me ahead of time ...

His openness to frank discussion gave oxygen to debates about long-taboo subjects, including priestly celibacy, communion for divorced and remarried people ... Getty Images Francis not only ...

Francis often argued that regular practicing Catholics — including women and L.G.B.T.Q. people — should be consulted ... Francis allow married men to serve as priests in the remote Amazon ...

He angered some Catholic Church traditionalists by reaching out to gay and marginalized people, demanding justice ... softening the ban on giving Communion to divorced and civilly remarried ...

At its Hot Docs screening, 'the audience got a chance to be in communion with these incredible ... housing a school for deaf people, and serving as home to a Japanese family after wartime ...

The church also rearranged the room to put the box that contains the unleavened wafers used in Communion — a ... who gives herself fully to serving God. "I know that I live my own vocation the best ...