The Francis College of Engineering has been recognized as exemplar and with a Bronze Award for the inaugural ASEE Diversity Recognition Program. The ASEE Diversity Recognition Program (ADRP) was ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, elected as the 266th pope of the Catholic Church in 2013 ... who will succeed Pope Francis. Following a vacancy in the papacy, the College of Cardinals (bishops and Vatican ...

Pope Francis, DeBernardo said, “has tried to build a listening church rather than just shutting them out. He’s called for the Church to be inclusive of all people.” Pope's record on LGBTQ ...

Boston College Magazine: Many of the pope’s supporters have expressed disappointment with Francis’s decision on viri probati, or ordaining married men. Were you surprised by the apostolic exhortation?

Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission ... Remo Casilli/Reuters “The pope cares a lot about the Church, so it’s clear he put the Church first,” Dr.

Pope Francis has faced numerous health challenges in recent years, and yet still has maintained a busy schedule of meetings, Masses, and travel since 2020.

Pope Francis is still in critical condition but has not had any “further respiratory cris[e]s,” the Vatican said Sunday, after the 88-year-old leader of the Catholic Church was reported ...

He served as the head of the Catholic Church from February 1878 until ... The decision will ultimately be made by the College of Cardinals. Pope Francis' official X (formerly Twitter) account ...

As a scholar of global Catholicism, however, I would argue that the changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of his ...

This idea is linked with Francis’ call for a more “synodal” church: one that is less hierarchical and shaped by lay Catholics’ concerns and challenges. When a pope dies – or resigns, like Benedict XVI ...

Pope Francis delivers Urbi et Orbi Christmas Day at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican on Wednesday, December 25, 2024. Urbi et Orbi means "for the city and for the world" and is addressed not only ...

The Catholic Church is in the middle of a year-long jubilee celebration, an event traditionally held every 25 years. Francis likes to keep people on their toes and will have known that announcing ...