"We want a Christian Europe because we believe it is the only one that has a future," Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on ...

The prime minister said his government had helped renew over 3,000 churches and build 200 new ones in the Carpathian Basin.

At the Mass for the election of a new pope, the dean of the College of Cardinals made “a strong call to maintain the unity of the Church” ahead of the conclave on Wednesday, urging the ...

Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. On Easter Sunday, he used his message and blessing to appeal for peace in Middle East and Ukraine.

Francis selected cardinals who he felt shared his sense of the church — that it should be less hierarchical and more pastoral — but they do not necessarily embrace his more inclusive view of ...

“To young people I say: Do not be afraid! Accept the invitation of the Church and Christ the Lord!” declared Pope Leo XIV to thunderous applause during his first Regina Coeli address as an ...

A cardinal (from the Latin “cardinalis” or principal) is a high dignitary of the Catholic Church chosen by the pope to assist him in his government. Gathered in the College of Cardinals ...

The first Latin American and Jesuit pope was determined to lead a more welcoming, pastoral and merciful Church outward to a broken world. Pope Francis (1936–2025), who led the Catholic Church ...

Pope Francis sought to make the church more welcoming, global and collegial, after his predecessors adopted more doctrinaire and traditional approaches. By Jason Horowitz The cardinals who will ch ...

Pope Francis has fundamentally changed the way in which the Church relates to the challenges of the modern world and he will go down in history as a bold reformer, Metropolitan Archbishop of Bucharest ...

Known in the Middle Ages as Eastern Europe’s “Land of Witches,” Romania has crafted a pavilion with the theme “Romanian Magic Box.” Throughout the pavilion, visitors are greeted with a ...

Often vague and imprecise, his comments led to fierce arguments over interpretation that polarized the Church. In 2016, for example, he suggested to reporters that the use of contraception could ...