Pope Francis has appointed a cardinal to be his new camerlengo after the current post holder retired. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, 71, will replace Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone after he stepped down on h...
The pope has offered his condolences to the family of an investigative journalist killed by a car bombing in Malta on Monday. In a rare reaction by the Catholic leader to the death of a private citiz...
Pope Francis has given priests the power to forgive mothers who've had abortions, and doctors who have performed them. It's after the pontiff declared 2016 would be a Holy Year of Mercy, where priest...
The Pope has held a private audience with US President Donald Trump, putting aside their previous clashes. The president, accompanied by his wife and several aides, arrived at the Vatican on Wednesda...
Pope Francis has offered prayers for those who are "courageously" dealing with the terrorism which is gripping the world in "fear and bewilderment". Giving his New Year address, to the tens of thousa...
The pontiff has written a letter - printed in an Italian newspaper - in response to a question about whether God forgave those who do not believe in Him. Pope Francis has said in a letter to an Ita...
Pope Francis is willing to meet government and opposition leaders in Venezuela to try and restart attempts to solve a volatile political crisis in the country, President Nicolás Maduro (pictured be...
Pope Francis has officially changed the wording of the Lord's Prayer, after claims that the translation was misleading. The pontiff first voiced his concerns about the wording in 2017, and called for...
Pope Francis has declined to confirm or deny claims by the Vatican's retired ambassador to the United States that he knew in 2013 about sexual misconduct allega Francis said the 11-page text by Archb...
The Pope has said he won't rule out speaking to so called Islamic State (I.S.), if he thought it could bring about peace in Iraq and Syria. While admitting it would be "almost impossible" to open dia...
Pope Francis opened a divisive meeting on preserving the Amazon and ministering to its indigenous peoples on Sunday as he fended off attacks from conservatives Francis celebrated an opening Mass in ...
Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops to dream of a future free of the mistakes of the past and hit out at clericalism as he opened a global church lead Yet close to the Vatican's synod hall, about t...
Pope Francis has admitted that he personally ordered an investigation into claims of child sexual abuse in Spain. Earlier this week three priests and a lay person in the city of Granada were arrested...
The Pope has commuted the prison sentence of a Spanish priest convicted in July of disclosing Vatican information and said that he should be freed. In a trial dubbed 'Vatileaks II', Monsigor Angel Lu...
Scotland's most senior Catholic priest has welcomed a decision by Pope Francis to launch a fact finding mission into sexual misconduct allegations made against Scotland's most senior Catholic priest...
Pope Francis has described 29 people killed by gunmen targeting a bus carrying Coptic Christians in Egypt on Friday as "martyrs". Leading thousands of people in prayer for the victims at the Vatican ...
Pope Francis may not return to the Philippines for his 2016 International Eucharistic Congress (IEC), according to Archbishop Pierro Marini. GMA Cebu reported that Archbishop Pierro Marini, the presi...
Pope Francis has pledged to donate $500,000 to support Church-run educational, medical and agricultural projects in war-torn South Sudan. The Catholic humanitarian organisation Caritas Internationali...
Pope Francis is expected to make a dramatic intervention on climate change later this week, releasing his first major teaching letter, known as an encyclical, o According to the New York Times, the e...
An American art museum says it hopes a special portrait of Pope Benedict XVI made from colourful condoms will begin a conversation about AIDS in African countri The Milwaukee Art Museum, in Wisconsin...
