Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church’s once every quarter-century celebration that ...

Pilgrims lined up to walk through the great Holy Door at the entrance of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome as Christmas marks the ...

He made the remarks a day after the start of the Roman Catholic Church’s Holy Year, known as a Jubilee, which takes place ...

Christians gathered at the Church of the Nativity in the holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday to mark a solemn Christmas ...

"I invite every individual, and all people of all nations ... to become pilgrims of hope, to silence the sounds of arms and ...

During his return flight from Marseille in southern France in 2023, Pope Francis was asked by AFP about the proposed law. He strongly criticized it as “an ugly kind of compassion.” ...

France. (Photo: Myrabella/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0) The anti-mafia collective “A Maffia no A vitaIé” (“No to the mafia, yes to life” in Corsican) called on Pope Francis December 3 ...

The White House announced that President Joe Biden will head to Italy early next month for a public meeting with Pope Francis ...

The White House is expected to announce soon that President Joe Biden will visit the Vatican to meet with Pope Francis next ...

It was a rare decision by Pope Francis that no one in the Church disagreed with – on Wednesday he decided to make the Martyrs of Compiègne officially saints.

Pope Francis has declared as saints 16 Carmelite martyrs executed by guillotine during the French Revolution and confirmed ...

Authorities in the French overseas territory of Mayotte could still confirm only 31 deaths on Wednesday from Cyclone Chido, ...