The Catholic Church opened the solemn Lenten season leading to Easter on Wednesday without the participation of Pope Francis, ...

Pope Francis' approach to LGBTQ issues marked a major, if mixed, shift in tone for the Catholic Church -- from scorn to ...

The Argentine pope, who has chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, has remained in stable ...

The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of ...

And there are no specific norms outlining what happens to the leadership of the Catholic Church if a pope becomes totally ...

Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome as doctors treat a worsening respiratory infection that the Vatican has described ...

Still, nearly a dozen years after the Pope's initial statement, official church doctrine remains largely unchanged, and there remains no room in the Roman Catholic Church for same-sex marriage.