Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a "gesture of great hope" that he prayed would be undertaken ...

Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prayed would be undertaken ...

Pope Francis received one of the U.S.'s top honors, published a memoir, and facilitated relations between Washington and Havana.

Pope Francis has praised Cuba's decision to release 553 prisoners as a sign of hope, facilitated by Vatican-brokered ...

“It is significant that the Havana authorities linked this decision directly to Pope Francis’ appeal,” said Cardinal Pietro Parolin. The Vatican’s secretary of state called the gradual ...

The archbishop of Havana asked him for the text of a speech ... No scarlet shoes – the ones Pope Benedict rather liked – just his old orthopedic shoes. “I have flat feet”, he explained.

“It is significant that Havana authorities linked this decision directly to Pope Francis’ appeal, who, in the Bull of Indiction of the Jubilee, and then on several other occasions, called for ...

Someone in the queue behind him said “let’s hope he accepts”, but he was, it seems, deaf to all the signs he was in the ...

And a new report reopens the possibility that a mystery weapon used by a foreign adversary caused Havana syndrome. At the ...

the Cuban foreign ministry said the government informed Pope Francis it would gradually release 553 convicts as authorities explore legal and humanitarian ways to make it happen. Havana did not ...

Cuban President Raul Castro arrived at the Vatican on Sunday to thank Pope Francis for his role in brokering the rapprochement between Havana and Washington. The first South American pope played a ...