All the Catholic Church's structures, including tribunals and faculties of canon law, must undergo a "pastoral and missionary conversion" to ensure the church is giving the world "the only thing it ...

On Divine Mercy Sunday, Pope Francis will offer Mass in a church containing the relics of both St. Faustina Kowalska and St. John Paul II. This will be the second year that the pope has chosen to ...

Meghan Pierce Sunday News Correspondent Mar 27, 2016 Mar 27, 2016 AS PART of an effort to spread divine mercy, the Catholic Church has opened 10 “Holy Doors” to draw spiritual pilgrims from across the ...

Former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio recently celebrated his one-year anniversary as Pope Francis. This collection of homilies and public addresses serves as a mission statement for this papacy.

Mercy — the cornerstone of Pope Francis' teaching and ministry — must guide the Catholic Church through its period of mourning and the uncertainty that lies ahead, the Vatican's second-ranking ...

As Divine Mercy Sunday celebrates the 90th anniversary of the first celebration in 1935, a celebration that was made official for the universal Church in 2000, Marian Father Chris Alar, provincial ...

Priests who are Missionaries of Mercy during the Holy Year attended Pope Francis’ celebration of Ash Wednesday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Feb. 10, 2016. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) ...