RNS is an independent, nonprofit, and award-winning source of global news on religion, spirituality, and culture. Founded in ...

On the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, Pope Francis expressed his solidarity with all those ...

Participants in the Synod on Synodality spent two days before the start of its final session in a closed retreat that ended ...

Pope Francis will appoint 21 new cardinals from around the world, he announced on Sunday, in an unexpected push to influence ...

Pope Francis has chosen 21 new cardinals who will join the body that will elect his successor. Among them is Bishop Mykola ...

ROME — Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals Sunday, significantly increasing the size of the College of Cardinals and further ...

Pope Francis opened a global Catholic summit on Wednesday with a warning that delegates should not seek to foist pet agendas ...

Pope Francis will open a month-long summit of global Catholic leaders on Wednesday but it is likely to defer any decision on ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday opened a global summit of Catholic leaders, which has postponed action on divisive issues such as ...

Pope Francis' big Catholic reform project has opened with widespread calls for women to take up more positions of ...

Angelus address, the Holy Father asked couples to reflect on whether their married life is fully open to the gift of children ...

Pope Francis said he wanted to respond to a "storm of chattering" that had developed around his expansion of synod membership ...