Pope Francis has complimented the people of Mexico during his weekly audience, praising them for being "so welcoming to migrants. God bless you". A group of Mexicans present in St Peter's Square for ...
Pope Francis has congratulated a small Arab country for its "generosity" in welcoming more than one million refugees. He also praised the "welcoming hearts" of the Lebanese people in accepting both C...
Pope Francis has said that prayer prevents the hardening of the heart and makes a real difference to the lives of ordinary people. He was speaking at Mass at the Casa Santa Marta and discussed how pr...
Pope Francis has visited the site of an earthquake in central Italy which killed nearly 300 people, praying silently alone amid the rubble. The Vatican only announced the Pope's visit to the quake zo...
The Catholic Church has been given 35 new saints, proclaimed during a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St Peter's Square, Rome. Thirty of the saints proclaimed on Sunday are martyrs, including prie...
The five day visit by Francis is the first papal trip to Asia for 15 years. Pope Francis has celebrated an open air mass with more than 50,000 Catholics at a football stadium in South Korea on the se...
Pope Francis has spoken on the topic of family and illness in his latest June address. The Holy Father talked about the work of Jesus, who met with the sick and healed them.The address said that Jesu...
The Pope has reactivated his plans for a trip to South Sudan. Pope Francis was forced to cancel the visit in 2017 because of the civil war in the world's youngest country.The pontiff met with South S...
The Pope has stated "A Christian cannot be an anti-Semite". Pope Francis was speaking after receiving a delegation from the ancient community of Mountain Jews to discuss Holocaust anniversaries and t...
Pope Francis has said access to clean water is a human right and that it is "enormously shameful" that millions of people get sick and die each year for lack of In a message to a water management con...
Pope Francis has told churches they need to be better at welcoming people who are deaf and hard of hearing. The Pope was speaking on the World Day of the Deaf on Sunday and offered prayers for deaf ...
The pope has told Europe that it is the only continent that can bring humanity together. Speaking to a group of Christian socialists from France Pope Francis said: "Europe is the only continent that...
The Pope has called out the misuse of the crucifix. In a speech at St Peter's Square in the Vatican, Pope Francis said that the religious symbol should be "contemplated and understood", and "not be a...
Pope Francis has opened the Catholic Synod on the family in Rome. Speaking to bishops from around the world, he has stressed that marriage is a binding bond between a man and woman.Emphasisng the chu...
Pope Francis had a secret meeting with a Christian American county clerk who was jailed for repeatedly refusing to allow gay couples to marry, her lawyer has cl Kim Davis from Kentucky said she was r...
Pope Francis has expressed his pain and sadness after a head-on train crash in Italy which left 23 people dead. Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the smash in the south of the countr...
Pope Francis has sent greetings to Rome's Jewish population for their New Year celebrations. "I am particularly glad to convey my warmest wishes to you and the Jewish community of Rome," the Pope sai...
The Pope has written a letter to support the refugee team at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Francis has sent the letter, written in Spanish, to members of the team who are competing in the four-yearly g...
Pope Francis has not invited the Dalai Lama to a religious conference later this month in what some believe is an attempt to improve the Vatican's relations wit The Pope has been involved in sensitiv...
Pope Francis has spoken of the need to practice what you preach, after the release of two books criticising the way the Vatican spends its money. The Merchants of the Temple and Avarice both reveal a...
