Earlier this month, Pope Francis became the first pope — indeed, the first Western leader — to visit South Sudan. Amid an enthusiastic welcome, more than 100,000 people attended his papal Mass ...

Pope Francis is due to go to Congo from Jan. 31 to Feb. 3 and then spend two days in South Sudan. The pope has wanted to visit predominantly Christian South Sudan for years but plans were ...

Church must offer an alterative to contemporary values if it wants to help teenagers grappling with anxiety and frightening ...

Pope Francis called for peace on Friday as he met delegations of the South Sudan government and the hold-out opposition group ...

Pope Francis has had an eventful decade in the chair of Peter, but one aspect of his papal ministry may have gone relatively ...

The Holy See's ambassador to South Sudan has said the Catholic Church must “step up its game” to help the people build peace.

On his election 10 years ago, Pope Francis was hailed as a voice of modernisation. Has his papacy made a difference to health ...

Pope Francis marked 10 years as head of the Catholic Church on Monday with a podcast, a private mass and a series of ...

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the election of Pope Francis as the 265th successor of St. Peter. Here is a timeline of ...

For insight into how Pope Francis is viewed among those with different faiths, or none, NCR invited the presiding bishop of ...

One main difference with the past is that since April 2022, the pope has not been the main celebrant at public Masses, which ...

Leaders of South Sudan's government and the armed opposition are to meet March 20-26 at the Rome headquarters of the ...