Pope Francis died Monday, leaving behind a legacy as "Pope of the People" and a change agent within the Catholic Church. Austen Ivereigh's The Great Reformer was published just a year into Pope ...

Priests, bishops, and cardinals preside at Holy Mass with the College of Cardinals for the Opening of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2023 in Vatican City.

Sent by his religious order to Hong Kong to share the Gospel in Asia, one Catholic priest's missionary work is raising hell — ...

This is always a danger with wide historical surveys, and MacCulloch’s final section, on contemporary Church history—passages on the Catholic Church’s sexual-abuse scandals, the Gay ...

The closest Catholic Church was a charmingly small church in Picayune, St. Charles Borromeo. The pastor, without the aid of a parochial vicar or deacon, was a gentle Irish priest, Fr. John Noone.

Pope Leo begins papacy amid high hopes and big challenges 03:57. Pope Leo XIV gave his first homily at a Mass on Friday, one day after he was selected by a conclave of cardinals at the Vatican to ...

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church's 266th pontiff, was the first Jesuit to lead the church in its nearly 2,000-year history. Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, died April 21 at age 88 .