Pope Francis has voiced support for a French cardinal who has faced allegations of covering up cases of paedophile priests in his Lyon parish, saying he should The pontiff, speaking to the French Ca...
Pope Francis has condemned European countries for not doing enough to take care of refugees. He was speaking after around 668 migrants and refugees were saved from boats in the Mediterranean off Liby...
The Pope has hit out at the Italian mafia, telling them that despite the fact many go to church and worship openly, they cannot call themselves Christians becau Pope Francis used his weekly general a...
Pope Francis has been addressing bishops from Mozambique in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. According to Italian newspaper Zenit, the Pope told them over the weekend to care for and defend the...
The Pope has urged Catholic nuns to get out and meet the public, smile more and feed the needy. According to the Times, Francis also suggested cloistered nuns should spend half an hour talking to peo...
Pope Francis has told the head of the Coptic Church that the church is "united by the ecumenism of blood". He sent a message to Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria after they met in Rome two years ago.The...
The Pope has urged parents to not put-off baptising their children because of the "excuse...he or she is unable to understand." Addressing thousands of pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square for the ...
The Pope has called for every European parish and religious community to take in one refugee family each, in a gesture of solidarity. Francis also announced two parishes in the Vatican will offer a h...
The Pope has called for tech giants to take responsibility to prevent children's easy access to pornography and other harmful content online. Speaking at the Promoting Digital Child Dignity conferenc...
The Pope has called on the world's religious and political leaders to work harder to bring about peace, in an impassioned speech at the Vatican in the wake of t Speaking at the Vatican on Monday befo...
Pope Francis has told young Catholics to take risks in order to help boost membership of the Catholic Church. At a six-day conference in Rome with 300 youth in attendance he said: "Be brave in these ...
The US and Cuba presidents have both thanked Pope Francis for his help improving relations between the countries. The pontiff played a key role in bringing them together, after he sent private letter...
Pope Francis has thanked Jordan for bringing displaced Christians and other refugees from Iraq into its country, a year since the exodus began. It was this time last year that at least hundreds of th...
Pope Francis has given a number of priests in southern Nigeria a 30-day ultimatum to obey him by accepting the nomination of a bishop - or face being suspended The row began when Clergymen in the di...
Pope Francis has issued a challenge to world leaders to do more for the protection of refugees and migrants. The Vatican has made a roadmap on how governments should approach the issue entitled Respo...
Pope Francis will reportedly chew on coca leaves containing a small amount of the drug cocaine when he visits Bolivia next month. According to a government minister the Pope will visit La Paz, the ca...
This weekend Pope Francis is expected to deliver a message of peace to Bosnia and renew calls for reconciliation in the country. According to the DPA International news agency the motto of the Holy F...
Pope Francis has said the Catholic Church is "aware of a greater urgency" to be more welcoming to divorced people. In his weekly general audience the pontiff said divorced and re-married Catholics ha...
Women hoping to one-day serve as clergy in the Catholic Church have been given fresh hope as Pope Francis has apparently said he is open to exploring the feasib Catholic news sources say the Pontiff ...
Pope Francis has agreed to speed up the path to sainthood for Fr Jacques Hamel, the Catholic priest murdered by Islamic State militants in his Normandy church i Usually the Vatican has a five-year br...
