Pope Francis has lauded the strength and religious passion of Paraguayan women while visiting the country's most important pilgrimage site. Thousands of his fellow Argentines joined hundreds of thous...
The Pope has prayed at Armenia's genocide memorial one day after surprisingly branding an Ottoman-era massacre of Armenians a century ago a planned "genocide." Francis also laid flowers at the monume...
Pope Francis is praying for those affected by a deadly avalanche in central Italy, as the Ansa news agency has quoted police who say eight people have been According to the state television broadcas...
Pope Francis has prayed for the seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher, who is in critically ill in hospital. The racer spent six months in an induced coma in 2014 after suffering a serious head i...
Pope Francis has used his Sunday address to the crowds in St. Peter's Square to pray for peace. It's as violence continues between Israel and Palestine.Israeli air strikes have been bombarding Gaza f...
Pope Francis has said he is making "fervent prayers" for the 44 crew aboard the missing submarine in Argentina. The Argentine pontiff's prayers come as Argentina's Navy doubled its search for the sai...
Pope Francis said he will skip luxury life in the papal villa and stay in the Vatican guesthouse instead after revealing he hasn't taken a formal holiday since According to The Times, his last holid...
Pope Francis has concluded his extraordinary summit on preventing clergy sex abuse by vowing to confront abusers with "the wrath of God". Francis also pledged to end the cover-ups by their superiors ...
Pope Francis has effectively stripped US clergyman Theodore McCarrick of his cardinal's rank following allegations of sexual abuse including against an 11-year- The Vatican announced on Saturday that...
Pope Francis has appointed a Vatican official to oversee the Catholic Church on Guam after allegations of sexual abuse. A number of allegations of sexual abuse have been made against the Pacific is...
Pope Francis is drawing raffle tickets today for gifts he's donated to help the poor. The Holy Father's received several gifts during his papacy, which began in March 2013.He decided last year to don...
The Pope has challenged the Prime Minister of Iraq, Haydar al-Abadi, on the treatment of Christians in the country. Francis held a "cordial" meeting with the leader at the Vatican on Wednesday mornin...
Pope Francis has reaffirmed the "primacy" of using conscience to handle tough moral questions in a message on The Joy Of Love, his document which prompted warni Francis told a conference of Italian b...
Pope Francis have given a scathing critique of the way Europe has handled the migrant crisis as he accepted a prize for promoting European unity. The continent's people "are tempted to yield to our o...
The Pope has celebrated Mass at a former military base in Chile that not only lies on land contested by the indigenous Mapuche people, but was also a detention Leading around 150,000 people in praye...
Pope Francis has enlisted the international best-selling Canadian author and environmental activist Naomi Klein for the Vatican's latest conference on climate c Naomi Klein will lead the Holy See's m...
Celibate Catholics experiencing "deep-seated homosexual tendencies" will not be allowed into the priesthood, the Pope has restated. A newly-updated document by the Vatican concerning the training of ...
Pope Francis has refused to describe Islam as "terrorist" saying "it's not right to identify Islam with violence". On a press conference during a flight back to Rome from Poland the pontiff was asked...
Pope Francis has declined to accept the resignation of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin as archbishop of Lyon after he was convicted of failing to report a kno Barbarin had travelled to the Vatican ...
Pope Francis has said his care and concern for poor people is a 'touchstone' of his Christian faith and not some communist-inspired ideology. The Holy Father has been accused by some U.S. conservativ...
