Roman Catholic Church
After the United States Supreme Court announced the ruling of same-sex marriage in the whole country, gay communities in different parts of the world are even more determined to fight for their stand.
In a new paper, the Pope urges the world to fight back against global warming.
Pope Francis says that scientific theory does not contradict religion.
This Monday marked the start of the two-week sex conference called by Pope Francis in Vatican City. A so-called Synod by the Catholic Church is attended by almost 200 cardinals, bishops and priests.
Six months into his papacy, Pope Francis has once again shocked the Roman Catholic Church after making unorthodox comments about homosexuality, abortion and contraception.
Pope Francis blessed 35,000 Harley Davidson riders at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on Sunday, in commemoration of the 110th anniversary of the motorcycle.
As of Monday, the Obama administration has decided to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning after pill to minors, dropping an earlier appeal to a judge's order allowing it.
Pope Francis and the Vatican asked Catholics worldwide to join the Holy See on Sunday, June 2nd between 5-6 PM Rome time (11 AM - 12 PM EDT) in Eucharistic adoration (ie praying before a consecrated communion host). It was the first worldwide holy hour ever called.
Today, on Holy Thursday, newly elected Pope Francis celebrated the Roman Catholic ritual by washing the feet of young inmates in a juvenile detention center.
In an interview last year, Pope Francis suggested that the celibacy requirement for priests "can change" adding that he, too, was tempted by a woman as a young seminarian.
The newly elected Pope Francis I gave his inaugural mass this morning in Vatican City, after a two-hour installation ceremony attended by heads of state from all across the world.
Pope Francis' maintained diplomacy while meeting with his political nemesis Argentine President Cristina Fernandez on Monday.
On Wednesday Argentina Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was chosen to succeed Pope Benedict XVI and lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. Though Pope Francis' election symbolized a fresh outlook for Roman Catholic believers, he endorses traditional church teachings that many progressives object.
Less than 24-hours after he was greeted by over a hundred thousand people at Vatican City and the tens of millions watching on television sets around the world, the new head of the Catholic church Pope Francis I quietly left the Vatican to pray privately at one of Rome's renowned basilicas.
On Wednesday, Roman Catholics cheered as the world welcomed newly elected pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a 76-year-old Argentinean Cardinal who is now referred to as Pope Francis.Yet, despite the fresh dynamic that Francis offers as a leader, critics point out that he maintains the same conservative religous viewpoints on homosexuality.
