ANALYSIS: Here are six angles for understanding who the new cardinals are and why Pope Francis might have picked them.

In his letter, the Holy Father expressed his closeness with those “who dwell in the lands of which the Scriptures speak most ...

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On the anniversary of Oct. 7, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, I do not want to talk about peace or ...

I think we have to look at the question very much from … the Spirit. ‘Is the Spirit calling women?’” said Sister Mary Theresa ...

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

Pope Francis announced he would create 21 new cardinals Dec. 8, including a 99-year-old former nuncio and the 44-year-old ...

The study groups are investigating questions such as how to improve seminary education, ministry to LGBTQ Catholics and ...

Pope Francis announced the appointment of the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Australia, Bishop Mykola Bychok, ...

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Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, issued binding diocesan policies Sept. 12 on the "formation of ...