Vatican

ICE agents take break from enforcing immigration laws, discover 500-year-old Christopher Columbus letter

Anna Giaritelli · June 14, 2018 8:34 pm

Pope Francis sits during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Pope Francis to host oil executives to talk about combating climate change

Naomi Lim · June 1, 2018 1:18 pm

Timothy P. Carney: Men, women, and mother church

Timothy P. Carney · May 29, 2018 8:30 pm

Pope Francis sits during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican.

Pope Francis criticizes modern financial system

Joseph Lawler · May 17, 2018 5:49 pm

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt (center) testifies at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Energy and Environment

EPA hid Pruitt dinner with cardinal accused of sexual abuse: Report

John Siciliano · May 11, 2018 10:50 pm

Pivotal Pope

Lawrence Klepp · May 4, 2018 1:11 am

A woman holds balloons with photos of Alfie Evans, outside Alder Hey Children's Hospital, following the death of the 23-month old who was being treated at the hospital, in Liverpool, England on Saturday.

Alfie Evans taken off life support, mourned by Pope Francis

Kimberly Leonard · April 28, 2018 6:44 pm

Pope Francis' remarks perpetuate the myth that globalization and free markets have hurt the world's poor. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis has it wrong on global poverty and its cure

Robert Murphy · February 28, 2018 5:01 am

Pope Francis's papacy has emphasized care for the weak, but he has remained quiet when it comes to the strong men leading dictatorships around the globe. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis must make the church a beacon of truth again

Washington Examiner · February 11, 2018 5:01 am

"Fake news is a sign of intolerant and hypersensitive attitudes, and leads only to the spread of arrogance and hatred," the pope said. "That is the end result of untruth." (Marco Sarmati/Pool Photo via AP)

Pope Francis condemns fake news as a ‘sign of intolerant and hypersensitive attitudes’

Melissa Quinn · January 24, 2018 4:59 pm

The Bishops Caught Between the Vatican and the Chinese Government

Stephen White · January 24, 2018 4:40 pm

"On this festive day let us ask the lord for peace for Jerusalem and for all the Holy Land," the Roman Catholic leader said before a crowd of worshipers. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo Via AP)

Pope Francis calls for a two-state solution in Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Christmas homily

Katie Leach · December 25, 2017 2:32 pm