VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Mercy – the cornerstone of Pope Francis’ teaching and ministry – must guide the Catholic Church through ...

The meeting inside St. Peter’s Basilica marked the presidents’ first face-to-face meeting since a tense February Oval Office ...

Commenting on the historic moment April 26, Archbishop Gudziak said that, through the encounter, “Pope Francis is giving a ...

He spent the rest of his pontificate going back out to those peripheries, traveling to more than 65 nations, preferring those that were poor, scarred by war, marginalized and forgotten. Then the ...