Pope Francis’s recent draft text demands climate reparations and an immediate end to fossil fuel exploration. Why can’t the Biden administration do the same?

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

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?

He heaped praise on one of the most repressive regimes in the world and dismissed the democratic aspirations of the Muslim masses.

The battle to remake the Church

In a closed hearing, he disputed accusations of complicity with the junta

Helping the poor has been his life mission. But can he reform the Church?

A short conclave increases the odds the archbishop of Milan will be pope