Pope Francis has baptised 21 babies in the Sistine Chapel under the ceiling frescoed by Michelangelo, in what has become an ...

President Joe Biden changed his travel plans to Rome to award Pope Francis the Medal of Freedom due to the California wildfires, but the two still spoke on Saturday.

President Joe Biden has honored Pope Francis with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction. It's the highest ...

Pope Francis told a group of children receiving treatment for cancer in Poland they are “witnesses of hope” to those around them. During a Jan. 10 audience at the Vatican, the pope greeted ...

Pope Francis used his first general audience of the year to address the scourge of exploitation and violence against children, urging Christians worldwide not to remain indifferent to their pain ...

Pope Francis recently said that "fake news" was ... "This phenomenon generates false images of reality, a climate of suspicion that foments hate, undermines people’s sense of security, and ...

When Pope Francis permitted priests to bless same-sex ... Daniel Flores, bishop of the border town of Brownsville, Texas, accused Burch of framing the relationship between Catholic humanitarian ...

Jan. 6 (UPI) --Pope Francis on Monday named Sister Simona Brambilla the first female prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Brambilla ...

VATICAN CITY, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Monday named a Catholic cardinal who has criticized Donald Trump's political agenda as the new leader for the Catholic Church in Washington ...

Pope Francis’s appointment of Cardinal Robert McElroy as the highly visible prelate of the church in Washington is already being interpreted as a shot across the bow of the Trump administration ...

Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the ...