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Pope Francis has pointed to St. Paul as a model for Catholics who seek to use the latest technologies to communicate the Gospel.In a message delive...

Pope Francis has accepted a Belgian Catholic bishop’s request not to be made a cardinal at a consistory in August.Bishop Lucas Van Looy, the 80-yea...

Pope Francis on Wednesday decreed that diocesan bishops must receive written permission from the Vatican before erecting a public association of th...

Pope Francis said on Wednesday that the elderly must accept their physical limitations, noting that he now has to walk with a cane.In his general a...

Pope Francis said in an interview published on Tuesday that he told the leader of Germany’s Catholic bishops that the country already had “a very g...

Pope Francis will not preside at a Mass and procession on the feast of Corpus Christi, the Vatican announced on Monday.The Holy See press office sa...

Speaking on Trinity Sunday, Pope Francis said that celebrating the Trinity is “not so much a theological exercise, but a revolution in our way of l...

Pope Francis on Friday spoke about the challenges facing families, including threats to human dignity such as pornography and surrogacy.“We also ta...

In a condolence message on Wednesday, Pope Francis praised the “luminous Christian witness” of Order of Malta leader Fra’ Marco Luzzago.Luzzago, wh...

Pope Francis on Wednesday encouraged people not to hide their wrinkles, saying “it’s the heart that matters.”In his general audience address on Jun...

Pope Francis has expressed his “spiritual closeness” to Nigerian Catholics mourning the victims of a massacre at a church on Pentecost Sunday.A tel...

Under the Code of Canon Law, reformed in 1983, there are two types of consistories of cardinals: ordinary and extraordinary.An extraordinary consis...