This year's elections will be crucial to determining the country’s destiny, the bishops said.

Catholic greens had reason to sound exclamations of joy during the inaugural papal Mass.

The U.S. bishops called the proposed health regulations an "unjust and unlawful mandate."

Few Catholics, and even fewer Jesuits, ever imagined there would be a Jesuit pope.

Cheers of “Francesco! Francesco! Francesco!” resounded throughout the square.

Cardinal Francis has become the first pope in 600 years to receive his predecessor’s blessing.