Pope Francis is not expected to veto President Donald Trump's choice of a high-profile critic of his papacy as the next U.S.

Pope Francis has said he wants to give women greater leadership roles in the Roman Catholic Church. If he really wants to ...

One of the more interesting passages in Pope Francis’s television interview on Sunday was his statement that sins of the ...

After greeting the groups of international pilgrims in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall, the Pope asked people to pray for ...

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae ...

Rome — Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin. Francis didn't break his arm, but a sling ...

Pope Francis has hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prays will be undertaken ...

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, a Dominican theologian who helped write the Catechism of the Catholic Church, led the Vienna ...

Pope Francis has fallen over and injured his right arm but did not suffer any broken bones, the Vatican says. In a statement, the Holy See press office said that due to a fall Thursday morning in ...

Pope Francis will install Franciscan nun Raffaella Petrini as head of the General Secretariat of the Government of the State ...

One of this papacy’s more outspoken critics called on the faithful to ‘pray for Pope Francis that he might confirm the Church ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — While many at the Vatican let out a sigh of relief following reports that Hamas and Israel agreed to a ceasefire on Friday (Jan. 17), the interruption of hostilities in Gaza ...