c. 2015 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis reinforced his radical reshaping of the Catholic Church by naming 20 new cardinals from countries...

c. 2015 Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) Amid the sweeping tributes for former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo following his death on Thursday (Jan. 1) at 82...

c. 2015 Religion News Service ROME (RNS) Catholic bishops from the southern Italian region of Calabria have broken their silence and spoken out against the...

c. 2014 Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) To much of the country, Cardinal Timothy Dolan has been the conservative face of the American hierarchy, the happy...

c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) Scores of studies and surveys in 2014 revealed myriad, quirky ways we live out our faith and values. But the most...

c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish man who tried to assassinate St. John Paul II in 1981, was expelled from Italy on Monday (Dec...

c. 2014 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Cardinal Walter Kasper, one of Pope Francis’ closest advisers, has sought to downplay the...

c. 2014 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis on Tuesday (December 23) challenged Muslim religious leaders to...

c. 2014 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis held nothing back on Monday (Dec. 22) in addressing the ills of the Roman Catholic Church in a...

c. 2014 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis launched a blistering attack on the Vatican bureaucracy on Monday (Dec. 22), outlining a “catalog...