It is the most geographically diverse group in modern Church history, with growing representation from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This reflects the global demography of Catholicism – and sets ...

To the world’s media he was a “people’s pope”, the very model of a modern man of faith who seemed ... The Catholic Church’s official teaching has remained much as it was at the start ...

He is recognised as giving a clear witness to the life, love and joy of Jesus in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council – a point of major reform in modern Church history. This witness has ...

(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 ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- An extensive restoration has been completed at the Historic St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in downtown Bend, which is holding an open house from 4-6 p.m. Thursday.

AT THIS time of year, it is customary for parish churches to hold their annual general meeting — actually, two distinct meetings, usually held on the same day. The first is the Annual Meeting of ...

What if we aren't thinking about evangelism in the right way, culturally or theologically? This book contextualizes evangelism in our late modern times and reimagines what the call to outreach means ...

(CNN) — Alliances among the nine Supreme Court justices can shift back and forth, as in recent cases over President Donald Trump’s mass deportation of migrants. But religion is different. The ...