Days after speaking with Pope Francis, President Joe Biden announced Dec. 23 that he would commute most existing federal ...

The first Holy Year was called in 1300, and in recent times they are generally celebrated every 25 to 50 years. Pilgrims who ...

December 24, 2024, Pope Francis will inaugurate the 2025 Jubilee opening of the first Holy Door: a year of great significance ...

According to the Vatican, the tradition began in 1300 when Pope Boniface VII announced the first Jubilee. Later, Jubilees ...

Contrary to false allegations in the media, the request of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to Italy next month to meet with Pope Francis and top Italian officials for ...

Pope Francis has called for a ceasefire on all war fronts in his Sunday prayer ahead of Christmas celebrations, condemning ...

Pope Francis will conduct this Sunday's Angelus prayer remotely and not from a window in the Vatican because he has come down with a cold, his press office said Saturday.

Pope Francis, battling a cold ahead of an arduous Christmas schedule and the launch of the Vatican's Holy Year, delivered a ...

Francis urged the Vatican inner circle to bless more and talk less badly of others. It wasn’t the first time he had used the ...

Burch’s nomination was announced Dec. 20, just the second time since 2000 that an incoming or reelected president made the ...