VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humility and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives over climate change and critiques of ...

On Divine Mercy Sunday, Pope Francis will offer Mass in a church containing the relics of both St. Faustina Kowalska and St. John Paul II. This will be the second year that the pope has chosen to ...

Instead of going home after a long night at a Dec. 10 Fort Worth City Council meeting that gave Mercy Culture Church the green light to build a shelter for human trafficking survivors, lead pastors ...

Mercy — the cornerstone of Pope Francis' teaching and ministry — must guide the Catholic Church through its period of mourning and the uncertainty that lies ahead, the Vatican's second-ranking ...

All the Catholic Church's structures, including tribunals and faculties of canon law, must undergo a "pastoral and missionary conversion" to ensure the church is giving the world "the only thing it ...

Meghan Pierce Sunday News Correspondent Mar 27, 2016 Mar 27, 2016 AS PART of an effort to spread divine mercy, the Catholic Church has opened 10 “Holy Doors” to draw spiritual pilgrims from across the ...

Priests who are Missionaries of Mercy during the Holy Year attended Pope Francis’ celebration of Ash Wednesday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 10, 2016. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) ...