The first-ever Iraq visit by a pope could've ended disastrously, but a foiled assassination plot has enabled Pope Francis to write about the event in retrospect. "Almost everyone advised me ...

Photo shows A stencil graphic shows a waving Pope Francis set above large red and white letters spelling Indonesia. While Indonesia's Catholic community is only 3 per cent of the population ...

Pope Francis called for the sound of arms "to be ... in southeast England to the St Mary Magdalene Church, passing and waving to a crowd of well-wishers. They linked up with William, his wife ...

Orthodox Christians participated in blessing of the waters ceremonies, while Catholics in the Vatican attended Mass in St.

It includes a bar for the pope to hold when standing and waving to pilgrims in St. Peter's Square. Pope Francis' outspokenness on the damage to the planet dates back to at least 2015. At that time, he ...

Christmas and New Year’s are now safely past. The casualties have been counted and the implausible excuses workshopped. With just a touch of hindsight available, now is the time to ponder what on ...

Auckland in New Zealand and Sydney in Australia have become the first major Western cities to welcome 2025, with hundreds of ...

They wanted normal lives - a family, owning a home. Then they chose to take religious vows. Two young nuns, a rarity in ...

Women were among the first to take to the streets after the coup, waving banners and banging pots and pans ... “I too kneel on the streets of Myanmar,” Pope Francis said in his heartfelt appeal for an ...

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

Their sad, shared legacy is that both men have diminished their high offices.

President Joe Biden on Saturday awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the highest U.S.