In October 2024, at the most recent BRICS summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the countries of the “global South” ...

The conclave to select a new pope will be sharply different from the body that chose Francis in 2013. Experts say that could ...

Just months after he became the head of the Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis condemned the “new tyranny” of unfettered capitalism ... and the corridors of global power—including the ...

It is increasingly credentialled, typically boasting advanced degrees in business, economics or law. The cultural ... which entered global capitalism late, have the youngest economic elites ...

Francis consistently rebuked Trump and the Republican Party, as well as the many U.S. Catholic bishops and priests who support them. He even asked an associate to read JD Vance a long statement on the ...

Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading ...

VATICAN CITY — (AP) — Pope Francis, history's first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...

He consistently chose to visit poor countries where Christians were often persecuted minorities, rather than the centers of global Catholicism ... He changed church law to remove the pontifical ...

Workers are increasingly stressed about saving for retirement. Proponents of employee stock ownership programs say an ...

He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s ...