Pope Francis regularly irritates individuals with far-right views. He emphasizes that the LGBT community should be accepted.

Images: Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly Is Pope Francis trying to close the cafeteria? On an Easter Sunday appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of ...

Bishop Joseph Strickland did not always have a difficult relationship with Pope Francis. When Francis became the head of the Catholic Church ... Reach out to the marginalized and just leave ...

The churches are empty (Mass attendance WAY down under his papacy) & I rarely see children in Italy," Campos-Duffy wrote. "Birth rate collapsing. Woke Francis has failed the Church." ...

Francis said that those who pretended to back him stated that “they did not want a ‘foreign’ pope,” given that Pope John Paul II, who ruled over the church from 1978 to 2005, was Polish.

BCM: Pope Francis has said that the Church should become more synodal in its workings. What does that mean? TS: I think what the pope is saying is that it’s not just a matter of having synods as ...

Francis' Monday declaration, called "Dignitas Infinita," addressed over a dozen individual issues of the modern day through the lens of scripture and church teaching, including abortion ...

Pope Francis is the 266th Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was elected by the conclave of cardinals on March 13 ...

Yes and No. It’s an issue that sheds light on a wider issue in the Church, namely, the limits of law on papal power. Pope Francis revealed that “Ratzinger was my candidate” in 2005 ...

The Vatican confirmed Pope Francis would preside over the Easter Vigil service on Saturday night, after he decided at the last minute to skip his participation in the Good Friday procession at the ...

The Church is very big. It's more than a temple ... you shouldn't run away from her." An extended version of O'Donnell's interview with Pope Francis will air on 60 Minutes on Sunday, May 19 ...