“You know there are some critics who say the pope is not courageous but unconscious, that he’s taking steps against Catholic doctrine, that he’s one step from heresy,” Pope Francis said Monday...

On Friday the stakes of an ongoing showdown between the Vatican and an Italian layman refusing an order to leave the monastery he founded were raised when Pope Francis directly intervened, asking for...

Jesus offers humanity a concrete model for holiness that can be lived each day, said Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, offering the second meditation of Lent for leaders of the Roman Curia and Vatican...