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Pilgrims and well-wishers gathered at Rome’s Gemelli hospital to greet Pope Francis as he made his first public appearance in a week after undergoing intestinal surgery.

Bishop Alphonse Quesnel of Fort Liberté, Haiti, said the Haitian church was "stunned" by the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

As a worldwide religious order, Franciscan friars need to find new and better ways to welcome the diversity of their members and allow it to challenge the ways they live the Gospel in the world, said Father Michael Perry, the ...

Father Min Seo Park, one of fewer than two dozen deaf priests worldwide, thinks deafness is hardly a disability and is working to help others realize that as well.

Pope Francis was hospitalized July 4 and underwent surgery on his sigmoid colon, the lowest part of the large intestine, the Vatican press office said.

As the nation' celebrates its independence on the Fourth of July, Americans should recall the country's "other founding" by the missionaries who, beginning in the 1500s, came to proclaim "the love of Jesus Christ to Indigenous peoples," said Los Angeles ...