Sebastian Gomes and his team at America Media produced a short (12 minutes) video of March's gathering of bishops, theologians and other church leaders at Fordham University. The gathering focused on ...

Left: Pope Francis speaks during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Oct. 23, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez); Right: A painting by Pompeo Batoni of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from ...

The late Pope Francis was the least favorite pope of American conservatives. In 2020, when Francis published an encyclical a month before the U.S. election, he seemed to be playing to his part as “the ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Addressing a world faced with consumerism, division and artificial intelligence, Pope Francis urged faithful to “return to the heart” in his new encyclical, “Dilexit Nos” (“He ...

Pope Francis is skeptical of artificial intelligence’s effects on humanity, and on Thursday he released an encyclical explaining why. In the 141-page document, called “Dilexit Nos” (He loved us), the ...