The manipulation changed the meaning of the letter.

“Behind all this is the unfortunate idea...that priests are everything in the church while sisters are nothing.”

Donatella Versace and Vogue's Anna Wintour were in Rome today.

The fact that Francis received the eight-page letter challenges his insistence that he has “zero tolerance” for sex abuse and cover-ups.

Mary McAleese, who has a gay son and has criticized the church’s position on L.G.B.T. issues, was invited to participate in a panel discussion on women in church governance.

History's first Latin American pope is particularly devoted to Marian iconography.

"I judged they were prepared. They knew what they were doing."

Pope Francis dove head-first into Chile's sex abuse scandal on his first full day in Santiago.

Some of Karadima's victims say Barros and other Karadima-trained bishops witnessed and tolerated Karadima's abuse

In the past, Francis has strongly condemned the "persecution of our Rohingya brothers," denounced their suffering because of their faith and called for them to receive "full rights."