Sundays spent in nature and a return of year-round meatless Fridays were a few of the ideas floated Nov. 13 at the U.S.

A return to Friday abstinence would be good for the soul and for the planet, uniting our devotion to the Lord and reverence ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has issued the fourth encyclical of his papacy, denouncing a world that “is losing its heart” during times of global turmoil marked by “wars, socio ...

and faith), Pope Francis’ next two encyclicals focused on the environment in Laudato si' (2015) and on fraternity against populism and war in “Fratelli tutti” (2020). In “Dilexit nos ...

The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality was nothing like papal gatherings of cinematic lore, but it clearly reflects Francis’s view ...

In his 2020 encyclical “Fratelli Tutti,” Pope Francis addressed the moral problem of capital punishment by citing St. John ...

Catholic Mobilizing Network urges president in final days to decide in line with Catholic teaching against death penalty ...

On October 24, Pope Francis released his fourth encyclical, titled Dilexit nos (“He Loved Us”), dedicated to the Sacred Heart ...

Overall, voters today care as much today about future Supreme Court appointments as they did in 2020 and 2016, but the ...

Pope Francis' yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of giving women more equity as hoped but reflected the pope's aims for a church ...

MUMBAI – India’s most senior Catholic prelate has hailed Pope Francis’s new encyclical Dilexit nos ... with Jesus,” he said. “In 2020 during Covid, I had led all the Bishops of India ...