Pope Francis’ teaching on the family hasn’t been fully embraced. This conference on “Amoris Laetitia” seeks to change that.

Pope Francis authorized spending up to 1 million euros to free a Colombian nun kidnapped by Al Qaeda-linked militants in Mali, a cardinal testified Thursday.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell and host Colleen Dulle discuss why Pope Francis is pessimistic about peace talks with Russia.

Destroying bogland is the Irish equivalent of burning the Amazon.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced to staff May 4 the closure of the Washington and New York offices of Catholic News Service. 21 employees will be laid off.

The story of Eleazar refusing to back down from his faith even in his old age reminds us that faith without action is just hypocrisy.

Pope Francis is willing to help negotiate an end to the Russian war against Ukraine, but warned that religious leaders “are not clerics of the state.”

“Please cherish the elderly,” Pope Francis says. “Because they are the presence of history.” Kane Tanaka, who died in April at the age of 119, is an example of what Francis is talking about.

The mission to reach the marginalized L.G.B.T. community led Father James Martin and his collaborators to launch a new website, outreach.faith, on May 1.

As the Russian attack on Ukraine entered its 67th day, Pope Francis called on Catholics worldwide to pray the rosary every day during the month of May for peace.