ROME (AP) — A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives met Thursday with Pope Francis and ...

The pope declared that part of the archives and library be moved to a building on extraterritorial Vatican property at the ...

Pope Francis has mistakenly used a hashtag on X that triggers the New Orleans Saints' logo to appear on his posts, and NFL fans are having fun with the mixup.

Since establishing the World Day of the Poor in 2016, the Pope has held the annual tradition of welcoming Rome’s poor into ...

Pope Francis announced on Saturday that St. Isaac ... A 2022 document titled “The Images of the Church in the Syriac and Latin Patristic Traditions” laid further groundwork for mutual ...

The Catholic Church doesn’t observe its World Day of the Poor until later this month, but Pope Francis has already released a ...

Pope Francis himself attended most days. The discussions at each table followed a set format (brief comments by each speaker, followed by silent prayer) and were punctuated by intervals in which ...

Pope Francis — or his social media manager, I’m guessing — is pretty active on X (formerly Twitter), with Biblical quotes, prayers and messages to the world. But the @Pontifex account has ...

By Emma Bubola Reporting from the Vatican Pope Francis issued a new pastoral letter on Thursday in which he urged Roman Catholics around the world to let go of consumerism and individualism ...

Pope Francis has canonized 14 new saints ... Franco Origlia/Getty Images Becoming a saint in the Catholic Church is a lengthy and formal process called canonization, which typically begins ...

Pope Francis' yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of giving women more equity as hoped but reflected the pope's aims for a church ...

Throughout the document, Pope Francis expresses his awareness that the Sacred Heart and related devotional images can easily be dismissed as kitschy, but he cautions against dismissing the ...