Kicking off the next phase of a closely-watched Vatican reform synod on Wednesday, Pope Francis urged delegates to focus on ...

Pope Francis' big Catholic reform project has opened with widespread calls for women to take up more positions of ...

Pope Francis opened the next round of his ongoing Synod on Synodality project in a service at the Saint Peter's Basilica in ...

Pope Francis will open a month-long summit of global Catholic leaders on Wednesday but it is likely to defer any decision on ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday opened a global summit of Catholic leaders, which has postponed action on divisive issues such as ...

Pope Francis opened a global Catholic summit on Wednesday with a warning that delegates should not seek to foist pet agendas ...

Pope Francis said he wanted to respond to a "storm of chattering" that had developed around his expansion of synod membership ...

The second session of the 16th Ordinary Synod of Bishops, running from Oct. 2–27, marks a critical phase in the Church’s ...

One South African theologian described “a deep sense of disillusionment that the church, on the one hand, is saying we need ...

Never can a bishop, or any other Christian, think of himself ‘without others,’” Pope Francis said Wednesday at the first ...

Pope Francis Wednesday inaugurated the final session of his Synod of Bishops on Synodality, urging participants to be humble ...

It was supposed to be an advisory meeting. It became an expert-led focus group.