Pope Francis expressed hope that both the incoming and outgoing U.S. administrations will collaborate to secure the return of ...

Environmentalists have called on the pope to halt the chopping down of a tree destined for St. Peter’s Square this Christmas, ...

ROME -- A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives met Thursday with Pope Francis and ...

In essence, both suggested that due to irregularities in the 2013 resignation announcement of Pope Benedict XVI, Francis was ...

The pontiff asked all Church realities, including movements, religious orders, and diocesan churches, to offer any vacant ...

Pope Francis’ encyclicals have drawn from and lead to this truth: What the world needs is heart—not sentimentality, but ...

Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period ...

The presentation on ‘Laudato Si’,’ a central document approaching its 10-year anniversary next year, was particularly notable ...

Before concluding his Wednesday audience and imparting his paternal blessing for pilgrims, the Holy Father concluded his ...

Referencing the concept of “climate finance,” Pope Francis said in a message to the U.N. climate summit on Wednesday that ...

Pope Francis, the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church, and Bangladesh Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus have jointly launched a "Pope Francis Yunus 3Zero Club" in Rome in an effort to usher in a ...

Pope Francis told pilgrims present at his general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday that the Blessed Virgin Mary does not focus on herself but on her son, Jesus. “Mary is always the ...