With this new crop of cardinals, Francis has successfully remade the college that will elect his successor, having personally ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a solemn Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday (Dec. 7), Pope ... Francis has been fixed on refashioning its hierarchical and often opaque structure into a more ...

Pope Francis emphasized that “no child is ever a mistake” during his last Angelus address before Christmas Day.

Having instituted the World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly in 2021, the Holy Father is keeping true to his inaugural ...

Pope Francis is the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome. Life inevitably has its sadnesses, which are part of every path of hope and every path toward conversion. But it is ...

Two attempted attacks on Pope Francis, including one by a suicide bomber, were foiled during his landmark trip to Iraq in 2021, the pontiff has revealed in an autobiography. The pope wrote that he ...

but a foiled assassination plot has enabled Pope Francis to write about the event in retrospect. "Almost everyone advised me against that trip," he wrote in his autobiography, reflecting on a 2021 ...

Security forces thwarted a pair of assassination attempts against Pope Francis — including a suicide bomber — during his March 2021 visit to Iraq, the pontiff shared in his new memoir.

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden will travel to Italy in January for a meeting with Pope Francis in what will likely be the final international trip of his term. The White House said Biden spoke ...

Pope visits French island of Corsica, celebrates Mass Also meets French President Emmanuel Macron Francis says some religious groups are stoking divisions Does not name the groups but tells ...