Pope Francis has canonized 14 new saints, including a group of martyrs from Syria, in a move that could symbolize a call for ...

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 called on the faithful to yearn to serve, not thirst for power, as he proclaimed 14 new saints, including Canada ...

The issue of women deacons had been a major theme of the current Vatican synod on how to make the Catholic Church more ...

Archbishop Bruno Forte, an Italian theologian and a new member of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith, will present the ...

We know that the Holy Father has expressed that at this time the issue of the female diaconate is not mature and has asked ...

For the Pope, "at this moment the question of the female diaconate is not mature, and he has asked that we do not dwell on ...

In a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Oct. 20, the pope declared three nineteenth-century founders of religious orders and the ...

"Dilexit nos" (He has loved us) is the title of the fourth encyclical by Pope Francis: it will be made public next Thursday.

Pope Francis created a new group of saints on Sunday, canonizing 14 individuals including the "martyrs of Damascus," killed ...

In a letter to Catholics in the Middle East on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, Pope Francis ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met privately with Pope Francis on Friday where the two exchanged gifts in what ...