The staggering accumulation of the wealth of the Catholic church becomes so formidable as to defy any rational assessment.
Ecclesiastical celibacy is not church dogma but a matter of tradition and open for discussion, says Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday hailed Pope Francis as "a spiritual leader of the world" and emphasized goals of social justice shared between the...
“It is important to intensify dialogue among the various religions and I am thinking particularly of dialogue with Islam,” the new pontiff said in an address...
Pope Francis urged members of all religions and those belonging to no church on Wednesday to unite