BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Pope’s factual anthropological roots are not just symbolic. According to genealogist Jari Honora, his maternal lineage traces directly to the Black community...
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — For the first time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, an American has been elected pope.
BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff and a global voice for the poor, immigrants, and the environment, died Monday at age 88.
By Ken Epstein The Board of Trustees of Holy Names University (HNU), which has shown little interest in working with educational institutions or city leaders to...
(Yahoo) – Folks in Philadelphia still speak with pride about the time Pope John Paul II visited the city in 1979. Next month, a new pope,...
ROME (Crux Now) — Because he’s such a beguiling media personality, Pope Francis says and does lots of things that get spun as revolutionary but...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis praised big families on Wednesday as a gift from God, after his comments that Catholics don’t...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis is firmly upholding church teaching banning contraception, but said Monday that Catholics don’t have...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Pope Francis said there are limits to freedom of speech, especially when it insults or ridicules someone’s faith,...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is increasing assistance to Western African countries hard-hit by the Ebola virus, setting aside 3 million euros ($3.55 million)...
Josephine McKenna, Religion News Service via USA TODAY VATICAN CITY (USA Today) — Pope Francis launched a blistering attack on the Vatican bureaucracy Monday, outlining a...
RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer The Vatican is investigating Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, Missouri, two years after he was convicted of failing to report...
Nicole Winfield, ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has defrocked its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic for sexually abusing boys. It’s the first time...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis ousted the all-Italian board of the Vatican’s financial watchdog agency Thursday and installed a more international set of experts following clashes between the...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has responded to the latest round of U.N. sex abuse inquiries by suggesting it is only responsible for implementing...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis denounced human trafficking as a crime against humanity Thursday after meeting with four women who were...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday permanently removed a German bishop from his Limburg diocese after his 31 million-euro ($43-million)...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — U.S. officials urged Pope Francis to put Philadelphia on his 2015 travel agenda Tuesday, making a pilgrimage to...
NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — From his simple sound bites to his breaking of Vatican rules, Pope Francis has made being Catholic cool...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican delegate running the troubled Legion of Christ urged its priests on Wednesday to elect a new leadership worthy of authority,...
(VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis opened a landmark meeting Tuesday on reforming the Catholic Church, saying he wants a missionary church with a modern spirit that...
