A list of the winners and finalists of the 2025 Poynter Journalism Prizes, aimed at spotlighting a wide range of outstanding reporting and writing from U.S. news organizations during 2024.

Whoever succeeds Pope Francis will inherit his momentous and controversial legacy of relations with Indigenous people ...

He chose to address poverty, he pursued reconciliation in the church, and he believed in inclusion and compassion. He ...

Whoever emerges from the coming conclave as the new leader of the 1.4-billion-member Catholic Church will face a myriad of ...

Ana Maria Belmonte, who knew the late Pope Francis when he worked as a young priest with the Jesuits in San Miguel, Argentina ...

Whatever Father Bergoglio might have been in the 1970s, Pope Francis was not. He spent half a century defending the oppressed ...

It’s considered uncouth to campaign for the role of the next pope, but there are currently several front-runners believed to ...

At age 16, Ana María Careaga was pregnant and kidnapped during the regime of terror. Her story is one Pope Francis never ...

A History of Sex and Christianity —the kind of hefty tome inevitably described as “magisterial” by reviewers—teems with ...

Pope Francis’ message to listen more, preach less and show mercy to all resonated, even among those who lacked faith. Francis ...

During the Francis papacy, the role of women in the church emerged as a pressing priority, with Catholics across the globe calling for change.

Francis' "no" to women's ordination is not just the exclusion of women from a Church role. It is an insupportable and blatant rejection of women's full and equal dignity as acquired through God's gift ...