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When I was newly baptized in an Anglican church, I attended a Catholic Mass and shed tears ... I was particularly struck by St. Francis de Sales and his gentle but strict teaching on love and ...

So many people lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state at St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all ...

Pope Francis, the first leader of the Catholic Church to be selected from South America, has passed away, leaving local ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Grief and tributes for Pope Francis were shared around the world Tuesday, a day after ...

Fostering unity is essential to a pope’s job description. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, an authoritative ...

Learning of the April 21 death of Pope Francis, Archbishop Bernard Hebda of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis said he planned to celebrate Mass for the repose of the soul of the pope at noon ...

He was also the first pope to take his name as pontiff from St ... in the Catholic Counter Reformation and the ecstatic emotional Church art that derived from it, exemplified by Peter Paul Rubens ...

As news of the death of Pope Francis spread across the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River Monday morning, Catholics headed to Mass and reflected on his legacy.

He angered some Catholic ... church. It was Francis, after all, who gave final approval to make John Paul II, a religiously conservative Pole and another pontiff from “a faraway land,” a saint.

On a chilly, cloudy morning in Rockland County, Rev. Steven Neier led a joyful yet solemn Easter Monday Mass at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Congers.