Catholic voters swung behind Donald Trump in the election. But the president-elect and Pope Francis’ visions couldn’t be ...

After threatening to excommunicate two Peruvian laypeople suing a papal envoy, Pope Francis apparently met with the pair over ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury, whose position has a 1,427-year history, is a major figure in world Christianity as head of the ...

within the highest hierarchy of the church ... where the archbishop was then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. After Bergoglio became pope, he named Bokalic Iglic as the bishop of Santiago del ...

The scandals surrounding the life and work of the former (and now disgraced) cardinal Theodore McCarrick rumbled in the background of Roman Catholic life for decades — starting in the early 1980s.

TAC's Canadian Bishop Peter Wilkinson has close ties to the Catholic hierarchy in British Columbia ... nor Eastern Catholic churches permit married bishops. Before he became Pope, Cardinal Joseph ...

Wojtyla ascended rapidly through the Catholic hierarchy after this, becoming an auxiliary bishop in 1958 and an archbishop in 1964. In 1967, Pope Paul VI made Wojtyla a cardinal. He was opposed to ...

The Irish-born cardinal, who was bishop of Dallas for nine years before his transfer to Rome, has also been chair of the ...

"We are all fully aware now that urgent structural measures, which can no longer be postponed, are needed to achieve ...

Pope Francis on Monday clarified that the final Synod on Synodality document — which calls for structural changes, including ...

Cardinal Miguel Ayuso Guixot, a leading Vatican expert on Islam, died on Monday (Nov. 25) at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, ...

Pope Francis has appointed U.S. Cardinal ... Pontifical Commission for Confidential Matters. The Irish-born cardinal, who was bishop of Dallas for nine years before his transfer to Rome, has ...