During Francis’s papacy, evangelical Protestantism and secularism continued to remake Latin America’s religious geography, ...

Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a ...

Fostering unity is essential to a pope’s job description. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, an authoritative ...

Francis’ vision for a ‘synodal’ church was built on trust and relationships − a dance where partners work together.

She said she met him when he went to Kenya a decade ago on the first of his five visits to the continent which took in 10 ...

What Flanagan understands is that the real story of America includes the story of slavery. He looked around at all the people ...

Pope Francis died on Monday April 21, 2025. This story was originally published in the Washington Examiner magazine on February 28, 2025. OBITUARY: POPE FRANCIS, LEADER OF THE ...

The first Latin American and Jesuit pope was determined to lead a more welcoming, pastoral and merciful Church outward to a ...

After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

For years, millions of people traveled through Central America north to the United States. Now that flow is changing ...

Christians are celebrating Holy Week with processions and reenactments in places like Jerusalem, Brazil, Nigeria, India, ...