A church music director fired for marrying his same-sex partner, is suing St. Francis Catholic Church and the Diocese of ...

(RNS) — It was a close call, but Francis’ emergence from Gemelli Hospital ensures that implementation of the Synod on Synodality's goals will outlast him. (RNS) — Just when it looked like ...

Stewart’s office said the decision was up to those commissioners, and emphasized that she doesn’t have authority to stop a private property owner — in this case, the St. Francis Parish ...

Pope Francis sent his condolences to Church ... according to the Pontifical Mission Societies’ Fides News Agency. St. Michael’s Catholic Parish was reportedly the hardest hit, while St ...

Pope Francis is "out of danger from death" as of Monday evening, marking a significant improvement after weeks of hospitalization involving the head of the Roman Catholic Church. In a statement ...

The Vatican Press Office reported that Pope Francis’ convalescence at St. Martha’s House ... and fidelity to Jesus Christ and his Church.

The Catholic Church is also in the middle of a jubilee year, with teams of pilgrims coming to Rome and expecting to see the pope. Francis has a difficult balancing act. He needs to take the time ...

Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, after 38 days battling a life-threatening case of pneumonia in both lungs, his doctors said.Gemelli medical director Dr. Sergio Alfieri ...

Well, what we are learning is just how close Pope Francis came to death as he battled pneumonia in both of his lungs for more than 5 weeks at Rome's Gelli Hospital. The doctor who led the medical ...

head of the Catholic Church and its almost 1.4 billion followers since 2013. A man holds a rosary beads during a rosary prayer for Pope Francis' health in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican ...

This idea is linked with Francis' call for a more "synodal" church: one that is less hierarchical and shaped by lay Catholics' concerns and challenges. When a pope dies – or resigns, like Benedi ...