Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, honored Francis of Assisi with the name he selected for himself when he was elected as pope in 2013. The pope’s namesake, Saint Francis, remains widely ...

A graphic circulated online makes a baseless claim that Pope Francis authorised the World Economic Forum (WEF) to rewrite the Bible and took to social media to say the scriptures must be “fact-checked ...

A Dec. 26 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a news article about the World Economic Forum and the head of the Catholic Church. "Pope Francis Authorizes WEF to Rewrite 'Fact Checked' Holy ...

Pope Francis has written a preface for the Italian edition of Come Forth: The Promise of Jesus's Greatest Miracle, a book by Jesuit Fr. James Martin. Originally published in the U.S. in September 2023 ...

Pope Francis smiles as he arrives for a meeting with members of the Unicoop supermarket cooperative in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Jan. 5, 2026. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) This week on ...

One Sunday, about a decade ago, 10 year-old Shane Fitzpatrick and her brothers -- Gavin and Evan -- were bickering and squabbling with each other. "We were acting like spoiled brats," recalls Shane, ...

Pope Francis urged Catholics on Wednesday to rediscover a book of the Bible that offers “valuable teaching on the alliance of the generations.” In his general audience address on April 27, the pope ...

St. Francis of Paola (1416-1507) was a 15th-century founder of a mendicant, or poverty-committed begging order, the Order of Minims. He comes from Calabria, in the very south of Italy. (If you imagine ...

The head of the Catholic Church and the leader of the Church of England are effectively rejecting the Bible by supporting policies that negate the connection of the Jewish people to the Holy Land, the ...