A crowd of an estimated 20,000 people gathered on the field in front of the Vanimo cathedral singing and dancing when Pope ...

The 87-year-old leader of the Catholic church visits Indonesia's largest mosque, meeting with its grand imam in an encounter ...

Any American who takes the full range of Catholic social teaching seriously simply cannot be comfortable in either of our ...

For a pope who marveled at having been chosen from the 'end of the Earth,' it was a voyage to another end of the Earth on the ...

Pope Francis traveled to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea on Sunday to celebrate the Catholic Church on the peripheries ...

Pope Francis traveled to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea on Sunday to celebrate the Catholic Church on the peripheries ...

Among his stops are Indonesia—the largest Muslim-majority country—and Singapore, which some view as an intermediary for China ...

Francis was elected pope largely on the strength of a speech he gave to his fellow cardinals in 2013 about the need for the ...

"Your country … has families with three, four or five children," Pope Francis told President Joko Widodo of Indonesia. "Keep ...

(RNS) — The pope is back in Rome after his visits to Asia and Oceania. Here’s what we learned from his historic trip.

Pope Francis arrived in Indonesia on Tuesday for a three-day visit to the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country in ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea -- Pope Francis honored the Catholic Church of the peripheries on Sunday as he celebrated Mass ...