Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

As with much of the book, many details were already known. At the Vatican, a Swiss Guard brings him sports results each week. Francis hasn’t watched a match on television—or any television for ...

What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who ...

Pope Francis described Donald Trump's migrant deportations as a "major crisis" on Tuesday, prompting a rebuke from the United ...

Supporters of President Donald Trump have attacked Pope Francis after the pontiff spoke against the Republican's mass ...

Pope Francis has accepted Archbishop Dennis Schnurr's resignation and named Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Robert G. Casey as his ...

Pope Francis on Tuesday appointed Tucson Bishop Edward Weisenburger as the new archbishop of Detroit, accepting the ...

Pope Francis described Donald Trump's migrant deportations as a "major crisis" Tuesday, prompting a rebuke from the US ...

Thanking members of the military and the police for their service, Pope Francis asked them to be on guard against seeing ...

There are many pleasures for students of the Catholic Church in Conclave—which recently received eight Oscar nominations—from ...

The Vatican City is the least populated country in the world because it has fewer than 1,000 residents (around 800–850 people ...

A traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him has died ...