The activists could face up to two years in prison if convicted on charges of offending religious sentiment and desecration of Poland's most-revered icon.

Pope Francis told Uruguay's new ambassador to the Holy See that a future visit to the country as well as to his native Argentina is still very much on the table.

President Trump’s departure from Washington, D.C., will not heal the country in the ways we tend to think it will. The cycle of rivalry and violence will likely recur.

The Australian government’s international financial watchdog, Austrac, said it overestimated bank transfers from Vatican City to Australia over the past six years by more than $1.5 billion dollars.

The rush of federal executions was an “aberration” that does not reflect the great successes of the death penalty abolition movement in recent years.

Ms. Power, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and human rights advocate, served as a co-chair of Mr. Biden’s Catholic outreach group.

Consider the countless souls, those alive today and all those in generations past, who have never been given an opportunity to respond to the Gospel the church preaches.

 “Covid knows no boundaries or immigration status; it is an indiscriminate killer.”

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell discuss Pope Francis’ challenge to the U.S. to overcome its divisions and how the U.S. bishops will need to step up in order to achieve that.

Pope Francis’ remarks from his general audience on Wednesday, Jan. 13.

Both Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI have received the first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 after the Vatican started vaccinating its employees and residents Jan. 13.

“I grew up Catholic, I went to church. went to Catholic school, I learned the Bible and my catechisms. And from those days I remember a phrase that is relevant today: a servant’s heart.”

Pope Francis called on Christians to practice what they preach, including by guaranteeing equal access to health care for all people.

A long-awaited report recounted decades of harm done by church-run homes for unmarried women and their babies in Ireland, where thousands of infants died.

The Vatican asked priests to take special anti-COVID-19 precautions this year when distributing ashes on Ash Wednesday, including sprinkling ashes on the top of people's heads rather than making a cross on people's foreheads.

Father James Martin: An alarming number of Catholic clergy contributed to an environment that led to the fatal riots at the U.S. Capitol.

A new law threatens the viability of government-supported Catholic schools in Spain.

A selection of reader comments from across America’s coverage of the riot.

Women have served as lectors and acolytes for decades. Now Pope Francis has changed canon law to formally recognize their ministry.

Hitler. Pinochet. Franco. The bishops have missed opportunities to stand up for democracy in the past. We can’t let it happen again.