The pope’s “Synod on Synodality” ended Saturday without progress on female deacons, married priests or LGBTQ+ outreach.

The final document of Vatican Synod on Synodality presented pathways to a more inclusive and transparent church that gives ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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