is being lauded in death as the “pope of the peripheries,” having pointed humanity’s collective consciousness to places and peoples beyond the Catholic Church’s administrative center in the West. In ...

The Philippines has a Catholic population ... always meant the Church to be a field hospital for the wounded and the sick.” Advíncula and David are expected to travel to Rome to participate ...

In the history of the Catholic Church ... one of most artistically appointed in Rome and the last surviving Gothic church in the city. The church stands in front of the Ecclesiastical Academy ...

Re called Francis “a pope among the people, with an open heart towards everyone.” He recalled the last image many people have of Francis was of him delivering what would become his final blessing on ...

From the outset he recognized the need for a shift within the Catholic Church, which had lost the ... marked the second call from a bishop of Rome to space, as Benedict XVI had made a comparable ...

All 133 Catholic cardinals who will vote for a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican said on Monday ... At stake is the direction of the Catholic Church, a 2,000-year-old institution with ...

It was followed by a blessing from Eastern Rite Catholic churches ... a 2015 trip to the Philippines. The 13 spent the night in a nearby square. They were already coming to Rome for the planned ...

VATICAN CITY — (AP) — World dignitaries and Catholic ... Catholic Church — and deferring to what the late Queen Elizabeth II did. “This is the country that broke from Rome; there is ...

Ferdinand Marcos, the president of the Philippines, which has a large Roman Catholic population ... “From Buenos Aires to Rome, Pope Francis wanted the Church to bring joy and hope to the ...

Caccia described Francis as a “person of trust, a person close to all of us” as he addressed mourners inside the neo-Gothic ... between the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church ...