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Pope Francis’ burdensome trip through Belgium reached new lows on Saturday when defiant Catholic university women demanded to ...

He was speaking at the Wamunyu Catholic Church in Machakos County, where he appeared to back legislators accusing Gachagua of ...

Pope Francis wrapped up a troubled visit to Belgium on Sunday with a Mass to beatify a 17th century mystic, after dashing the ...

President Joe Biden isn’t “wildly popular” in his former hometown of Scranton, Pa., but as an Irish Catholic who grew up ...

Abortion-rights groups are courting Latino voters through door-knocking and Spanish-language ads. They say the fast-growing ...

Francis' visit to Belgium was always going to be difficult given the country's history of clerical sexual abuse and its ...

Conservative voters who have been skeptical of mail voting and ballot gathering – a strategy often used by Democrats – are ...

Pope Francis presided over an open-air mass in Brussels on Sunday, capping a three-day visit to Belgium that grappled with past scandals and current debates over the role of women in the Catholic ...

A Catholic university took the rare step of criticizing Pope Francis, saying that he called women “a fertile welcome, care, ...

Pope Francis demanded Sunday that sexually abusive clergy be judged and their bishops stop covering up their crimes as he ...