Pope Francis on Sunday lamented the ongoing war and violence affecting families in Gaza and other parts of the world in the lead-up to Christmas and called for a “ceasefire on all war fronts ...

Pope Francis emphasized that “no child is ever a mistake” during his last Angelus address before Christmas Day. “A child is a gift of life,” the Holy Father told crowds of pilgrims on ...

AJACCIO, Corsica (AP) — Pope Francis on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica on Sunday called for a dynamic form of laicism, promoting the kind of popular piety that ...

Pope Francis became the first Catholic pontiff to visit Mosul in the war-torn country three years ago, in most likely the riskiest foreign trip of his 11-year papacy. Writing in his upcoming ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Rome in January to meet with Pope Francis and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the White House said on Thursday of a ...

In this photo, Pope Francis was made to look like he was talking to Madonna with his arm around her waist. Madonna tagged @rickdick_, the meme artist’s Instagram account, below the caption in red.

(RNS) — Bishops will be asked to report to the pope about how they are implementing synodality in their churches every five years. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a note released Monday (Nov. 25 ...

He raised no substantive concerns about Trump’s proposals to deport migrants, despite Pope Francis making welcoming migrants a persistent theme of his pontificate. Striking a different tone was ...

Two years ago, Ollie Pope was asked to stand in as England's wicketkeeper on the tour of Pakistan, but didn’t have any kit. He had to borrow some from Ben Foakes. Pope remains the last England ...

Not that those princes – the elite squad of the Roman Catholic Church, its cardinals who elect the Pope – seem all that different to other priests, as, for lunch, they dress down in black ...