For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

The death of Pope Francis has ignited widespread online curiosity about the process of electing the next leader of the ...

Many Indigenous Catholics saw an ally in Pope Francis who championed their causes, asked forgiveness for the church’s ...

In his final Easter message, Pope Francis expressed pain over the violence and division throughout our world and urged us to ...

European pope in centuries, Francis was especially aware of colonialism’s impact and the need to embrace many cultures within ...

a part of the Amazon rain forest. It was 2016, a year after Laudato Si, Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment. When he was up to speak, the bishop didn’t preach though he was in his city ...

Pope Leo XIV has hands-on experience of navigating the Amazon. Many Catholics have said they believe Prevost’s experience as ...

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Most stories about Pope Francis mention that he made history as ... lives of Native peoples from across the nine countries of the Amazon. During the papal Mass Francis celebrated in Chiapas ...

Pope Francis called on the world and 1.4 billion Catholics to confront climate change. He brought attention to the issue but it's not clear he changed many minds.

FILE – Pope Francis walks in procession on the occasion of the Amazon synod, a three-week meeting on preserving the rainforest and ministering to its native people, at the Vatican, Monday ...

Francis framed climate change as an urgent spiritual issue and helped push the world to take action. By Claire Brown In a shift for the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, who died on Monday at ...