The Pope's got jokes. Because religion isn't drab and dour, because laughter humanises, and without humanity where would we ...
Pope Francis, then known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, kisses the foot of Cristian Marcelo Reynoso during a Catholic ...
Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) is the head of the Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome. This essay has been adapted ...
Francis' apostolic journey to the French Mediterranean island. From this symbolic place he concluded the congress on popular ...
If you ask for a raise, you risk excommunication,” an anonymous Vatican employee said. “If you want to be paid for overtime, ...
The No. 3-seeded Wilmington school fell to No. 2-seeded Cardinal Gibbons (12-1) 38-0 in Round 4 of the NCHSAA 4A East playoffs in Raleigh Friday. While the loss marks the end of a season rampant ...
In addition to giving each new cardinal a scarlet zucchetto and biretta, and the traditional cardinalatial ring, the Holy Father assigned to each new cardinal a church of Rome — either a ...
Francis himself, even while he was still Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, continued along the Catholic Church’s path when it came to Jews. He established a close friendship with local Buenos ...
In a 2011 interview with a Catholic Argentinian news agency, then-cardinal Bergoglio warned against the temptation of priests to “clericalize the laity” and to “infect them with our own disease” ...
MANILA, Philippines — Even before he received his red vestments as one of the “Princes of the Catholic Church,” Cardinal Pablo “Ambo” Virgilio David was ready for the “call of ...
In a historic moment, Pope Francis elevated Archbishop George Jacob Koovakad to the rank of Cardinal, making him the first Catholic priest from India to be directly appointed to the rank. The 51 ...
Cardinal Bokalic served as auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires from 2010 to 2013, when Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future Pope Francis, led the archdiocese. He told journalists Dec. 6 that ...