To all, Francis offers a message of mercy. It is a message that has won him both praise and criticism.

Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published almost 10 years ago. This environmental text sought to move the ...

Pope John Paul II visited Australia in 1986, who becomes only the second Pope to visit Australia after Pope Paul VI's 1970 tour. On that time he was 66 years old, and had visited every state and ...

Signs of the times. Pope Francis' recent remarks on Israel and Gaza have intensified tensions with Jewish communities. Massimo Faggioli explores the pope’s handling of Catholic-Jewish relations ...