Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but the Church, like other institutions, may ...

Journalists should expose bribery when it happens in politics, of course, but documentarian Alex Gibney and HBO proceed as if ...

Pope Pius X was born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto in 1835. He served as pope from 1903 to 1914, and was canonized in 1954. He ...

Exhibition at the Reagan Library coincides with both Passover in Judaism and Holy Week and Easter Week in Christianity.

His election reflected a broader geographical shift in the church. Although the Vatican has been Catholicism’s spiritual and ...

The Sagrada Familia has faced the Spanish Civil War, fires, the COVID-19 pandemic and periods of economic growth and downturn. The ambitious church, situated in the Eixample district of Barcelona, is ...

Antoni Gaudí, architect of the Sagrada Família, is one step closer to becoming a saint after the Vatican recognized him for ...

Using Rembrandt’s painting “Return of the Prodigal Son” as inspiration, the Holy Father said God’s love is like that of a father who goes out in search of his lost children.

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and five men, including Antoni Gaudí, the Spanish architect who ...

To all, Francis offers a message of mercy. It is a message that has won him both praise and criticism.

Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published almost 10 years ago. This environmental text sought to move the ...