The Vatican is cutting the already shrinking pay packages of cardinals who head the Catholic Church's top offices in Rome by ...

"I do not intend to publish an apostolic exhortation. What we have approved is enough," Pope Francis said. Instead, he ...

A major Vatican summit of global Catholic leaders ended on Saturday with a call for women to be granted more leadership roles ...

Pope Francis has announced that the final Synod document will be adopted without traditional papal exhortation.

In an encyclical titled “He Loved Us,” Francis draws on spiritual themes in the hopes of helping people find deeper meaning ...

Pope Francis has issued the fourth encyclical of his papacy, denouncing a world that “is losing its heart” during times of ...

In his fourth encyclical, “Dilexit Nos,” Pope Francis calls on believers to rediscover devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus ...

In the final days of the most significant Catholic gathering since the 1960s, the prospect of women being ordained appears ...

A Vatican summit concluded with a call for more leadership roles for women in the Church, but it stopped short of endorsing female ordination. The summit also avoided specific LGBTQ mentions despite ...

Pope Francis urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics to abandon the "mad pursuit" of money and instead devote themselves to ...

Cardinal Victor Fernandez, the Church's lead doctrine official, told the summit on Oct. 2 that "there is still no room for a ...

Pope Francis' fourth encyclical calls on Catholics to contribute to building a church and society focused on human feeling ...