COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

Catholic power in America has shifted greatly to the right since Pope Francis ... She was robed in her liturgical vestments, the red and white rochet and chimere, used for prayer services without ...

Pope Francis sharply criticized U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in an unusual open letter to America's ...

In a letter to American bishops, Francis leveled unusually direct criticism at the administration on an issue he has made ...

ROME — Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s mass deportation of migrants, warning that ...

Vice President JD Vance used the old Catholic theology to defend the Trump administration's immigration policy. Pope Francis made clear that's not the church's interpretation.

Francis also appeared to take aim at Vice President JD Vance’s recent use of a medieval Catholic concept to justify the administration’s deportation policy.

Pope Francis has told soldiers, police and other law enforcement officials from around the world that armed force can only be ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has added the feast day of St. Teresa of Kolkata, a “beacon of hope” and an example of ...

"What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly," Francis wrote.