President Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to the Vatican defended many of the administration’s foreign-aid cuts at a ...

The pontiff's surprise entrance came during a special Jubilee Mass for those who are sick and those who care for the sick.

Pope Francis has made a surprise entrance to St. Peter’s Square during a special Jubilee Mass for the sick and medical ...

After being hospitalized for life-threatening double pneumonia, the 88-year-old pontiff thanked the faithful in St. Peter's ...

LONDON -- Pope Francis on Sunday made his first public appearance since being discharged from hospital two weeks ago. Francis ...

Since his hospitalization, Pope Francis has been forced to cancel several ... and refuse to turn a blind eye to the tragedy of rampant poverty that prevents millions of men, women, young people ...

Further reading: Papua New Guinea awaits Pope Francis amid struggles The amendment ... Thus, 40% of the population lives below the extreme poverty line, and 41% of children grow up in poverty.

An interview on economics and Catholic social teaching with Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize winning economist and a ...

In his written catechesis, the Holy Father described Jesus’ encounter with Zacchaeus as having a “special place” in his own ...

A little over a week after returning to the Vatican guesthouse to convalesce, the pope was showing gradual improvements in ...

Pope Francis shared that he is experiencing “healing,” specifically “in my soul and my body,” as he reaches the eighth day of ...