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By Courtney Mares/CNA Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati could be declared a saint during the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, according...

By Francesca Pollio Fenton/Catholic News Agency Pope Francis’ prayer intention for the month of April is that the dignity and worth of...

By Tyler Arnold, Tina Dennelly/Catholic News Agency March 13 marks the anniversary of the election of Pope Francis as the 266th successor...

By Zoe Romanowsky/Catholic News Agency On the day before International Women’s Day, Pope Francis addressed participants of the...

By Courtney Mares/Catholic News Agency Pope Francis has called Catholics to spend more time with the saving power of God’s word as...

By Courtney Mares/Catholic News Agency Pope Francis announced the start of a Year of Prayer on Sunday in preparation for the Catholic...

December 8, 2015. Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI outside of the Holy Doors at St. Peter's Basilica to begin the Jubilee Year...

Attention Catholic artists: The Vatican has announced an art competition in which your paintings can be displayed inside of St. Peter’s...

(Photo: Long Thiên, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons) By Charles J. Chaput Special to First Things One of the standards the Church uses to...

In light of the Holy Father’s issuance of Fiducia Supplicans , a declaration which offers guidelines regarding pastoral blessings of...

Credit: Unsplash By Daniel Payne/Catholic News Agency Church leaders, environmental activists, and Catholic groups around the world...

Credit: FreshStock/Shutterstock By Courtney Mares/Catholic News Agency The Vatican announced Thursday that two bishops from mainland...

Pope Francis addressed pilgrims and tourists at his first outdoor general audience after the summer on Sept. 6, 2023. | Vatican Media By:...

Pope Francis greeted pilgrims in St. Peter's Square on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, a few hours before he will be hospitalized for abdominal...

Pope Francis greets detainees and families outside of the Rebibbia Prison off of the Via Tiburtina in Rome, Italy on April 2, 2015....

(Photo: Pixabay) By Jonathan Liedl/National Catholic Register In describing the pontificate of Pope Francis, now at its 10-year mark,...

Photo: Vatican Media By Joe Bukuras/Catholic News Agency Pope Francis’s prayer intention for the month of March is for victims of abuse....

Pope Francis during his general audience in Paul VI Hall on January 26, 2022. (Photo by Daniel Ibanez/CNA) More than a penitential season...

On Sunday, Oct. 17, Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila celebrated the opening liturgy for the diocesan phase of the Synod on Synodality at the...

Below is the full text of Pope Francis’ Urbi et Orbi blessing delivered on March 27, during which he prayed for an end to the coronavirus...