Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa is a Vatican outsider, but his experience in a region sacred to three major religions may ...

Of the small handful of papal contenders, an even smaller subset tends flocks in countries at war. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, ...

A Lutheran church in Minneapolis is taking practical steps to help its mostly Latino immigrant congregation deal with the ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff ... His entire life was dedicated to the service of the Lord and of his Church,” Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, said ...

The Argentinian pontiff also spoke about his passion for steamy Latin dancing ... abuse cases and women taking on bigger roles in the Church. And on the issue of homosexuality, officially a ...

He was the first Jesuit pope and the first pope from the Americas. Pope Francis, the 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday, just over 12 years after assuming the papacy.

Pope Francis, the 266th leader of the Roman Catholic Church who ushered in a progressive era for the ... he wrote in an April 2016 document titled “Amoris Laetitia,” Latin for “The Joy of Love.” The ...

Pope Francis, the 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday, just over 12 years after assuming the papacy. He was 88. "Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday aged 88 after dedicating his 'entire life' to serving God and the Church, the Vatican ... the apostolic blessing in Latin. In all, Francis was outside for ...

As Pope, he made great efforts to heal the thousand-year rift with the Eastern Orthodox Church. In recognition, for the first time since the Great Schism of 1054, the Patriarch of Constantinople ...