"It's a human life, period," Pope Francis said. "This human life must be respected. This principle is so clear." ...

In his efforts to promote a holistic defense of human life, Pope Francis frequently denounced a "throwaway culture" where ...

Pope Francis called the Church to care for creation and the vulnerable — a message that transcends partisan divides ...

Pope Francis was widely seen as a transformative figure who boldly tried to address the challenges affecting the Catholic ...

Sylvaine Landrivon, a Catholic theologian and feminist, reflects on the late pope’s vision of women and the space he carved ...

Ghana's Cardinal Peter Turkson said he was not ready to become pope -- and that the Catholic Church might not be either.

A hardline cardinal from Wisconsin who is a fan of President Donald Trump and who battled Pope Francis could be the first ...

Close to the most poorest and to migrants, Pope Francis reconciled a segment of the Italian left with the papacy, while ...

For Catholics, Pope Francis was (and is) a kind of Rorschach test of where one thought the church should go in this century ...

The man formerly known as Jorge Bergoglio recognised himself as being a political figure, long before his arrival in Rome. He ...

LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, a Wisconsin native who once led the La Crosse Diocese, has emerged as a potential, though unlikely, candidate to become the next pope following the ...

Each one gets a piece of the cassock. They pull it gently at times, at others tugging it towards their parliamentary benches.