Dissanayake was sworn in on Monday after winning a three-way race that pitted him against former president Ranil Wickremesinghe and opposition leader Sajith Premadasa. The leftist positioned himself ...

Belgium’s prime minister has blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church’s horrific legacy of clerical sex abuse and ...

A new survey of Catholics in the United States and across six Latin American countries found that majorities want the church to allow for the use of birth control and letting women become priests. The ...

Following an investigation into an influential Peru-based Catholic movement that has expanded across Latin America and the ...

A recent poll found that attitudes toward the pope in six of Latin America's most populous countries are still broadly ...

Pope Francis has taken the unusual decision to expel 10 people from a troubled Catholic movement in Peru after a Vatican ...

The Vatican expelled 10 members from Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a group founded in Peru, after investigators reported ...

A new survey indicates that many Catholics in Latin America and the U.S. favor allowing women to become priests, with a ...

In a letter from the apostolic nunciature in Peru posted on the Peruvian bishops' conference website Sept. 25, the Vatican ...

Pope Francis expelled 10 members of Peru's controversial Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV) movement on Wednesday, including ...

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Views vary on other ideas, such as recognizing same-sex marriages. Most see Pope Francis as a change in the church’s ...