(CNN) — When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron ...

Challenges to worship abroad, and unsatisfying self-help opportunities here, were part of stories of people initiated into the Church at the Easter Vigil at St ... “Rarely have I worked with such a ...

Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, died of a stroke and heart failure on Easter Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Politics are splitting church congregations like the Red Sea, and Americans are noticing. Some have called it the “Big Sort.” So, how do worshipers stay ...