Pope Francis accepted the resignation of a German bishop on Saturday who played a key role in the German Synodal Way and had come under pressure over his handling of clerical sexual abuse in his ...

Pope Francis on Saturday updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding senior churchmen accountable for covering up sexual abuse cases, expanding it to cover lay Catholic leaders and reaffirming that ...

The Vatican and Pope Francis unveiled a new slate of legislation on Saturday that updates existing rules within the Catholic Church to penalize coverups of sexual abuse and hold perpetrators ...

March 25 (UPI) --Pope Francis on Saturday updated and permanently implemented Vatican regulations on confronting sexual abuse requiring abuse against vulnerable adults as well as children to be ...

ROME—The Vatican on Saturday published new legislation that extends to lay leaders of Catholic organizations the existing rules for investigating bishops over sex abuse or its coverup.

Pope Francis permanently decreed Saturday an updated version of Vos Estis Lux Mundi, his landmark legislation to counter sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. The decree promulgated March 25 ...

March 25 marks one year since Pope Francis consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Earlier this week, the Pope encouraged “each believer and community, especially prayer ...

Carved heads of a boy, a horse and a bearded man, formerly in Vatican Museums, unveiled in Athens The desire of Pope Francis to right a wrong has led to the official return to Greece from the ...

For insight into how Pope Francis is viewed among those with different faiths, or none, NCR invited the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, an atheist, a Muslim scholar and a rabbi to ...

ROME — Pope Francis said that NATO “barking” at Russia’s door may have led to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine — and said he has offered to meet the Russian president in Moscow. In an interview ...