In terms of assigning blame for the climate crisis, the pontiff is critical of wealthy nations, especially the United States, for disproportionately causing the emissions that scientists believe...

In his opening Mass for this month’s highly-anticipated Synod of Bishops on Synodality, Pope Francis said modern global challenges require the Church to be warm and welcoming, free of the ideology...

Pope Francis in response to a series of dubia, or doubts, posed over the summer maintained the church’s ban on women’s priestly ordination, but signaled openness on giving blessings to couples in...

Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, former Vatican envoy in Ukraine and head of the Dicastery for Eastern Churches, has called the war in Ukraine “barbaric,” and has defended Pope Francis’s attempt at a...

This week, the three-judge panel overseeing the case heard from lawyers representing the civil parties, each of whom advanced requests for compensation related to losses allegedly sustained as a...