PORT MORESBY, Papua ... New Guinea, travelling to the faraway settlement of Vanimo as the 87-year-old continues reaching out to what he likes to call the "peripheries" of the Catholic Church.

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — Pope Francis called Saturday for the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea to be particularly close to women who have been abused and marginalized, speaking out in ...

Father Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi, an Italian missionary, was one of the early martyrs of the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea. Born on March 1, 1826, in Italy, Mazzucconi was ordained in May ...

Pope Francis boarded an Australian Royal Air Force C-130 on Sunday and flew over the pristine jungles of Papua New Guinea ... the "peripheries" of the Catholic Church. He was warmly welcomed ...

PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — Pope Francis called Saturday for the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea to be particularly close to women who have been abused and marginalized, speaking out in ...