In an annual message for the World Day of Peace, which is celebrated on Jan. 1, the pope implied that violence toward humanity and violence toward the planet go hand in hand.

"The Two Popes," the latest attempt to tell the story of Pope Francis’s relationship with his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI, is as much an imaginary conversation as an honest attempt to...

The clerical sexual abuse scandal "may be the greatest moral crisis in the history of the Church," said Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Illinois.