Cardinal Wilton Gregory offers a prayer at the beginning of the Opening of the Jubilee Year Mass on Jan. 1, 2025 at the ...

Opening the Holy Door of the oldest Marian shrine in the Western world, Cardinal Rolando Makrickas prayed that the world ...

During the last year, since the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, relations between Pope ... of mass-sales of books that often are little more than a collage of things Francis said in different ...

Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with an appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to ...

Protecting life, caring for wounded life, restoring dignity to the life of every ‘born of woman’ is the fundamental basis for building a civilization of peace,” Francis said.

The pope inaugurated the Catholic Church's historic 2025 Jubilee of "Hope" on Christmas Eve at the Vatican in traditional ceremonies before he addressed thousands of Catholic faithful.

President Joe Biden changed the sentences of 37 death row inmates to life without parole, saying “we must stop the use of the ...

Israeli authorities allowed a rare Gaza visit by the leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, for the Mass while ... visit came as Pope Francis again ...

VATICAN, Holy See — Pope Francis will conduct this Sunday's Angelus ... and then celebrate a Christmas Eve mass that evening. On Christmas Day the 25th, he will lead another mass and deliver ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will conduct this Sunday's Angelus prayer remotely and not from a window in the Vatican because he has come down with a cold, his press office said Saturday. "Due to the ...

Pope Francis will conduct this Sunday's Angelus prayer remotely and not from a window in the Vatican because he has come down with a cold, his press office said Saturday.

Pope Francis has named the Most Reverend J. Greg Kelly, currently the auxiliary bishop of Dallas, as the next bishop of the ...