Prime Minister Edi Rama says he wants to give members of the Bektashi, a Shiite Sufi order, their own Vatican-style enclave ...

But in line with new Vatican criteria in place this year, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith ruled that the positive ...

Pope Francis has constructed a bizarre moral equivalence between abortion and border security. When asked about the ...

The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent ...

Speaking aboard the papal plane, Pope Francis encouraged U.S. Catholics to vote with their conscience in the upcoming Nov. 5 ...

He deemed former President Donald Trump's anti-migrant policies and Vice President Kamala Harris' support of abortion rights as both being "against life." ...

Almost half the population of East Timor, the most Catholic nation outside Vatican City, attended a Mass presided over by ...

But the issue of clerical sexual abuse is also hanging over this leg of the pope’s visit to the region as revelations of ...

Pope Francis on Monday arrived to a rock-star welcome in East Timor, where he will rally the Catholic-majority nation's ...

Pope Francis on Sept. 9 arrived on the small island of East Timor where he issued a broad condemnation of abuse, but stopped short of specifically addressing the church's complicated record on clergy ...

Tens of thousands lined the streets of capital Dili, waving Vatican-coloured flags and umbrellas while screaming as the ...