A dispatch from Pope Francis’s efforts to combat climate change—and to give a diminished Church a new indigenous face

Pope Francis's latest amendment to Catholic doctrine connects to other policies he's promoted in the past.

Why is the story of climate catastrophe so hard to tell?

Some Catholic leaders are using the sex abuse crisis to unseat Pope Francis.

A former diplomat's letter alleges that Pope Francis tried to rehabilitate a cardinal who abused seminarians. But did the writer have an ulterior motive?

How birth-control leaders found allies in American religious groups

The EPA administrator has become the de facto spokesperson for a fringe version of Christian environmentalism.

"An Inconvenient Truth" turned the former vice president into a climate hero. Will he reclaim the mantle with "An Inconvenient Sequel"? Many activists in the environmental movement hope not.

HBO's new show is both of our time and not.