Pope Francis has been forced to cut short a visit to a typhoon-hit region of the Philippines because of stormy weather. The pontiff had to leave four hours ahead of schedule and told the crowd at the...
Circus acrobats performed for Pope Francis during his weekly audience, in what has become a regular feature of the Vatican festive season. A pair of acrobats dressed as lumbering polar bears announce...
Pope Francis opened a landmark sex abuse prevention summit by warning senior Catholic figures that the faithful are demanding concrete action against predator p Victims then told the bishops of the s...
The Pope has denounced "fake news" as evil, and urged journalists to make it their mission to search for truth. After facing unprecedented bad press during his recently-concluded South American tour,...
Pope Francis has denounced the illegal logging and exploitation of Madagascar's unique natural resources as he opened a visit to the Indian Ocean nation. He also pleaded for the government to fight t...
The Pope has said countries have a responsibility to fight anti-Semitism and the "virus of indifference" threatening to erase the memory of the Holocaust. Francis' comments to an international confer...
Pope Francis has criticised the world's "great powers" for failing to take steps to stop the Holocaust, even though there was evidence to suggest Jews, Christia The pontiff said more should have been...
A meeting of all papal representatives in the Middle East began on 2nd October. The Pope has summoned his envoys to discuss the crisis facing the Church in that region, including the threat from Isla...
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has met Pope Francis to discuss the crisis in Ukraine. Vatican officials say the meeting in Rome focused on the ongoing war in the country and a way to find peace....
Pope Francis has donated €100,000 (£86,000) to help young couples in Syria who get married "despite the conflict". The donation was made on behalf of the Roman Curia at the end of the pontiff's Le...
Pope Francis has revealed he now wears the cross of an Iraqi priest who was killed for failing to renounce his Christian faith. The cross was apparently given to the pontiff by another Iraqi priest h...
Pope Francis' role in Argentina's most famous case of priestly sex abuse is coming under renewed scrutiny as he faces the greatest crisis of his papacy over the Francis, who at the time was still Car...
Pope Francis is seeking to turn a page in Christian-Muslim relations while also ministering to a unique, thriving island of Catholicism as he embarks on the fir While Francis is building on two of hi...
Pope Francis has launched a two-year activism and awareness-raising campaign about the plight of migrants to counteract mounting anti-immigrant sentiment in the The campaign encourages people to actu...
Pope Francis appeared to wipe away tears during a ceremony in St Peter's Square marking the return to Argentina of a Virgin Mary statue which ended up in Britai Argentine troops had brought a statue ...
The Pope has said he supports parents who smack their children at his weekly general audience, which was devoted to the role of fathers in the family. According to the Independent, Francis suggested ...
Figures released by the Holy See have revealed Pope Francis received around four million people in the Vatican alone this year. Over the past twelve months the Catholic Church held a special Holy Jub...
A Christian abuse campaigner who's on Pope Francis' special task-force for child protection has told Premier he expects the Pontiff to sack a bishop over cover- Peter Saunders said he's "confident" t...
Pope Francis has expressed his "deep sorrow" at violent clashes between government forces and protestors in Nicaragua which have left at least 110 people dead. The Catholic leader also appealed for p...
The Pope has warned Christians will disappear from the Middle East if more attention isn't paid to the violence that has forced tens of thousands of Christians Speaking to leaders of Middle East chu...
