Seven Catholic cardinals and 123 Catholic bishops died within the last 12 months. Six U.S. bishops were among the deceased ...

The deceased cardinals and bishops 'loved the church -- each in his own way, but they all loved the church,' Francis said ...

Pope Francis prayed at the graves of children and of miscarried babies on the feast of All Souls before concelebrating Mass ...

For the 12th consecutive year, Pope Francis visited a Roman cemetery November 2. This year, he prayed for parents facing ...

Pope Francis paid his respects on Saturday to the “Garden of Angels,” an area in Rome’s third largest cemetery which houses ...

Cardinal Renato Martino, the former Vatican observer at the United Nations and former president of the pontifical councils ...

I am close to the population of the Philippines, struck by a powerful cyclone. May the Lord support that people, so full of ...

The pontiff's message, which was recorded amid the final days of the Synod on Synodality in Rome, was posted on the YouTube channel of the Archdioceses of Lima Oct. 24. Francis said Gutiérrez was a ...

Ten years ago this month, Pope Francis denounced life-without-parole sentences as a hidden death penalty, calling on ...

Peruvian theologian the Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the father of the social justice-centered liberation theology that the ...

Gustavo Gutiérrez, the Peruvian priest and revered father of Latin American liberation theology, has died at the age of 96.

By Christopher Wells Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Monday morning for the seven Cardinals and more than 120 Bishops who ...