Pope Francis traveled to the hilltop town of his namesake for the fifth time in his pontificate on Friday to honor the poorest and most marginal and urge that they be welcomed and cared for by the ...

Pope Francis has been relentlessly stressing the need for the Catholic Church to become a church of the poor ever since he became its head seven years ago. In Asia, where many Catholics are already ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the first official document of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV placed the poor at the heart of the Catholic Church’s teaching, calling bishops around the world to take on the mantle ...

The Catholic Church must aim for a personal encounter with the poor, place them at the center of the Church’s mission and accept reform for inclusiveness, says a South Korean Church's synod document.

When Pope Francis' plane touched down in Dili, the capital of East Timor — the most Catholic country on earth outside the Vatican — the first to greet the pope was not the nation's president or other ...

A flood ravaged Preston County in rural West Virginia in 1985. In its wake, a Catholic youth minister and a group of teen girls made the trip from New Jersey to help dig out basements and make other ...

ROME – With more than 5,000 Catholic bishops in the world, it’s inevitable there will be a variety of personality types – some prelates are dedicated pastors, some are more akin to bureaucrats and ...

VATICAN CITY, March 16 (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Saturday that he wanted the Catholic Church to be poor and that its mission should be focused on serving the poor. The pope made his comment in ...

In a news conference with world's media Saturday morning, Pope Francis outlined his vision for the Catholic Church, saying that he wanted "a poor church for the poor," NBC News reported. The new ...