The plan was to publish the pope's memoirs after his death, writes co-author Carlo Musso. But Francis decided to release the ...

He's the first pope from Latin ... Carlo Musso. But Francis decided to release the book sooner to coincide with the Catholic Church's Jubilee Year, which began on Christmas Eve.

The incident comes just weeks after he suffered a facial injury and battled a cold during the Christmas season. Francis spent much of the past decade as pope in ... at St. Mary Major Basilica ...

The Mass also marked the Jubilee Year, launched on Christmas, with Francis noting that 'Mary is the door through which Christ entered this world,' quoting St. Ambrose. Pope Francis delivers his ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with a renewed appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to protect and respect life from conception to ...

Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Two more Holy Doors are scheduled to be opened in the coming days: the Basilica of St. Mary Major ... the Holy Door that Pope Francis opened on Christmas Eve, which ...

Those words bring us back to Christmas, for the Word ... the lonely and the dying,” Francis said. The pope continued his emphasis on Mary in his Angelus address to St. Peter’s Square, saying ...

Francis, 88, celebrated a New Year’s Day Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday that was dedicated to Mary ... of Francis’ busy Christmas schedule. For the pope, who suffers from ...