Welcomed by some and rejected by others, Laudato Si’ emerged as one of the most important documents of Francis’ pontificate.

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Pope Francis' tomb assures a pageantry of pilgrims to his memory, as the scandal-battered Catholic Church seeks high ground ...

Spanish antifascist Mercedes Núñez Targa’s memoir Bearing Witness: Prison Stories from a Woman's Fight Against Fascism is a ...

The next leader of the global Catholic Church needs to put the issue of clerical sex abuse at the heart of their papacy, ...

Whoever succeeds Pope Francis will inherit his momentous and controversial legacy of relations with Indigenous people ...

There will be no catharsis from this narrative of ambition, idealism, talent, energy, and charm that led to nearly absolute ...

The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic order founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola committed to spirituality and social action.

Pope Francis — the first pontiff from the Americas, who clashed with traditional Catholics but was hailed as a reformer by progressives — died on Monday, a day after Easter, at age 88. The pope had ...