Despite the unresolved issues that many Catholics know are long overdue, Francis achieved far more for marginalized people ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Pope Francis nudged the Catholic Church toward change. His successor can see it through ― or take the church back.

In America and much of the Global South, conservative churches promoting reactionary politics are growing. Catholicism could ...

For many of us who slipped away from the Church, Pope Francis represented the kindness we were always looking for and still ...

Once out of jail, Jelly Roll got his life back on track. He came home and focused on his music career, selling mix tapes out ...

On Monday morning, news broke around the globe: Pope Francis had died. Although the announcement was not entirely ...

Pope Francis died Monday in Rome at the age of 88, just weeks after he was released from hospital following a respiratory ...

At least in the capital, Damascus, the Christian holiday festivities were protected and joyfully observed. Religious ...

Sacred art and icons—often believed to confer divine gifts and powers to the faithful—began to flourish in the Second Century ...

Nonetheless, death and judgment, heaven and hell, are elements of the uniquely elevated, truly glorious conception of human ...