The Vatican's celebration of International Women’s Day focused on ways women can work for peace through nonviolence.

Describing the vocation crisis as an “enormous problem,” Pope Francis suggested he sympathizes with Catholics who come to Mass only to discover that there is no priest available to celebrate the Eucharist.

“Creating space for a variety of pastoral responses is not decentralization. It’s a response to the realities in which people live.”

“Voices of Faith” might be the most extraordinary event you’ve never heard of.

Reconnecting the church “with the energy of the Second Vatican Council,” may be the pope’s greatest achievement, Cardinal Donald Wuerl of the Archdiocese of Washington said in an exclusive interview as the fourth anniversary of the pope’s election approaches.

"I think this cliche must be put to an end: the idea that the pope, who wants the reform, is on one side and, on the other, a group of resisters who want to block it."