All Catholic bishops are required to submit a letter of resignation when they reach 75 years of age, but recently Francis has ...

Vance, a Catholic convert, accused the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of resettling “illegal immigrants.” ...

The archbishops of Washington and Baltimore offered prayers on Thursday after a deadly plane crash near downtown Washington, ...

Several bishops and archbishops spoke of the sanctity of life in Washington on the eve of the annual March for Life.

More than 5,000 students, families and other pro-life Catholics pack into the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in ...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Washington; and Cardinal Sean O'Malley, archbishop emeritus of Boston celebrate the vigil Mass on Jan. 23, 2025, the night before the March for Life.

President Donald Trump has received criticism from Pope Francis as the 47th U.S. president is set to unleash his mass deportation plan. The Holy Father weighed in on the anticipated operation ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, OP, concluded his term as archbishop of Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, his 80th birthday, when Pope Francis accepted his resignation. Schönborn, a theologian who ...

Pope Francis is taking the highly unusual decision to dissolve an influential Catholic group from Peru which has been plagued by allegations of abuse from within its community, including ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis offered prayers Wednesday for the people of Los Angeles as they endure deadly fires. Francis referred to the disaster during his weekly general audience Wednesday and ...

Pope Francis on Monday emphasized the ecumenical vocation shared by Christians during an audience held at the Vatican with Finnish representatives of various Christian denominations who have made ...

When a pope dies, or more rarely resigns (Francis's direct predecessor, Benedict XVI, was the first to step down since Gregory XII in 1415), the college of cardinals gathers in the Vatican to ...