About six months after he was elected head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis made a surprising admission. A Jesuit priest was interviewing Francis when he departed from a pre-approved list of ...

As pontiff, Francis, who died Monday at age 88, sought to bring the Church closer to the people, stating early in his papacy that he wanted to have a poorer Church "for the poor." He was known for ...

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, died of a stroke and heart failure on Easter Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican announced.

Francis' headlining changes were a softening of the Church's stance on homosexuality and contraception, an openness to women carrying out leadership positions within the church, and a rejection of ...

Pope Francis, a leader known for steering the Catholic Church toward mercy and care for the marginalized, often to the point of controversy, has died at the age of 88. Instead, experts said ...

The bureaucrats bristled at the Pope’s recent draconian moves: Since 2021, he'd slashed salaries for the Church’s 250-odd cardinals three times. In 2023, he nixed the rich housing subsidies ...

He was seen by many as progressive to some degree, but it's fair to say that even many liberals were disappointed that he didn't break from previous stances of the church on things like abortion ...

"Heresies and other errors have in consequence spread through the Church," the four bishops wrote. Francis set out to reshape how the church operates, but not what it teaches. “Amoris Laetitia ...

Indeed, aesthetic procedures are an excellent way to freshen tired complexions and give life back to sleepy skin, but aesthetics expert Dr. Paris Acharya says that before bounding onto the Botox ...

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