Progressive Christian leaders are grieving Pope Francis' passing and speculating about what is next. Their perspectives are ...

“This moment is critical now,” Bishop Sean W. Rowe, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, said. “For those of us who ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic Church in a more progressive direction while leading with compassion, openness ...

His critics were fellow clergy as well as elected officials in the ascendant wing of the American Catholic political realm.

When Pope Francis died the world lost not only the leader of the Catholic Church but also the first pontiff in history to take a stance on climate change.

The pontiff, who died on Easter Monday at age 88, strived to make the church more inclusive. But critics believed his reforms ...

The pontiff, who died Monday at the age of 88, periodically disappointed some of his most progressive church supporters. One critic said that Francis “was at heart a conservative” who had a ...