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

Americans are alarmed by their country's stark political divisions. But they shouldn't despair. After WWII, Italy was even more politically polarised than today. Yet by the mid-1950s, it had succeeded ...

Women religious are meant to be serving the poor, marginalized or vulnerable in society, not be working as servants to ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A special Wildcats jersey is returning to Lexington from Vatican City. In a video posted on Facebook, Father Jim Sichko got Pope Francis to sign a UK basketball jersey while on ...

"In our time, I have observed with pastoral concern the growing acceptance of IVF as an apparent solution to the heartache of ...

The Vatican’s comprehensive and nuanced approach reflects the region’s complex realities.

Austrian cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, a close friend of late pope Benedict XVI and long considered a papal contender ...

Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prayed would be undertaken elsewhere, as he welcomed an agreement the Vatican helped facilitate as ...

The world’s smallest sovereign state has a population of less than 800 and is surrounded by the city of Rome, but the Vatican ...

The Vatican has approved the creation of a body to promote collaboration among secular institutes in the Philippines, ...

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 was wearing his arm in a sling during his meetings and audiences Jan. 16 after hurting his right arm in a fall.