Francis has been credited by some with taking more decisive action on abuse cases than his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, did... READ MORE›
Pope Francis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Saturday to open a Palestinian embassy in Vatican City... READ MORE›
After the papal meeting, Abbas formally inaugurated the new embassy across the street from one of the main gates of Vatican City... READ MORE›
Palestinian leader meets Pope Francis for the opening of Vatican-based embassy, a day before Paris peace conference... READ MORE›
Strong winds in northern France cut power to some 190,000 homes as a storm surge sweeps Europe... READ MORE›
Medicina Onlus says it is providing medical care to around 200 homeless around the Vatican each week... READ MORE›
Boeselager has said Festing -- in the presence of conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke -- indicated that the Holy See wanted him to quit... READ MORE›
Italian police arrested two siblings on Tuesday for hacking the emails of European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi... READ MORE›
-- Istanbul Turkey IstanbulTuRRkey January 9, 2017 Greece Refugees and migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos on Saturday struggled with plunging temperatures and snow... READ MORE›
Pope Francis, pictured during mass in Vatican City on Jan. 1, 2017, acknowledged the recent deadly attacks in Turkey... READ MORE›
The restaurant, at the corner of Borgo Pio and Via del Mascherino, is in the Roman district of Borgo, which leads to Vatican City... READ MORE›
Worship is officially allowed only in state-authorised churches outside the Pope's authority, although many of China's estimated 12 million Catholics are thought to attend underground churches... READ MORE›
At his Christmas eve Mass on Saturday, Francis said the feast had been taken hostage by dazzling materialism that puts God in the shadows... READ MORE›
During a high-security Christmas Mass at the Vatican, the head of the Roman Catholic Church also denounced the continuing suffering of children... READ MORE›
For the third year in a row, Francis took the Vatican bureaucracy to task in his annual Christmas greeting... READ MORE›
Pope Francis has denounced the hidden resistance he is encountering in reforming the Vatican bureaucracy... READ MORE›
Pope Francis invited President Juan Manuel Santos and Mr Santos's right-wing predecessor in the presidency, Alvaro Uribe, to discuss the country's peace accord with rebels... READ MORE›
What you need to know about U.S.-China relations and the phone call between Trump and the Taiwanese president... READ MORE›
VATICAN CITY Baptized as a Roman Catholic and educated by Jesuits, Fidel Castro became a persecutor of the Church after seizing power in Cuba in 1959... READ MORE›
Pope Francis Extends Priestsa?? Ability to Forgive Abortion... READ MORE›
Post to Facebook Pope Francis allows priests to absolve 'grave sin' of abortion The pope also opposed the death penalty... READ MORE›
Over 100,000 pilgrims, including Queen Sofia of Spain and 1,500 homeless people, flocked to the Vatican in September for the canonization of Mother Teresa... READ MORE›
Three of the new cardinals are older than 80 and thus not eligible to vote in a conclave to elect Francis' successor... READ MORE›
Along with cardinals and other prelates dressed in impeccably pressed, bright green vestments, homeless people sat near the ornate central altar... READ MORE›
Pope Francis hopes next US president's actions do not increase poverty exclusion -- RT News... READ MORE›
Getting in one more not-so-veiled dig at Republican Donald Trump before Tuesday's election, Pope Francis urged Americans to think about building bridges, not walls... READ MORE›
Francis said The last word was clear and was given by St. John Paul II and this remains... READ MORE›
Pope francis assures atheists you don't have to believe in god to go to heaven... READ MORE›
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in 1910 to Albanian parents in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire and now the capital of Macedonia... READ MORE›
The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not a??a magician with a magic wanda??, Pope Francis has declared... READ MORE›
Pope francis gives fire-and-brimstone sermon, saying the corrupt should be tied to a rock and thrown into the sea... READ MORE›
Pope francis's edict on climate change will anger deniers and us churches... READ MORE›
Governments are now developing domestic climate-change plans to prepare for a United Nations summit meeting on the issue in Paris in December... READ MORE›
Earlier on Friday, the Vatican said that Archbishop Vigano had arranged the pope's meetings in Washington, including the one with Ms. Davis... READ MORE›
That plagued his predecessor's Pope Francis arrives in the Paul VI hall on Monday for an audience with the Holy See's employees at the Vatican... READ MORE›
VATICAN CITY -- Ban Ki-moon arrived at the Vatican with his own college of cardinals... READ MORE›
Rather than targeting the pope, conservative bishops and cardinals more often take aim at their liberal peers... READ MORE›
Charamsa can no longer work at the Vatican or its pontifical universities, Lombardi said... READ MORE›
Francis is not just trying to change the Roman Catholic Church... READ MORE›
'Golden calf' Pope Francis said life had become worse for people in both rich and poor countries, the BBC's David Willey in Rome reports... READ MORE›
Instead the South American pontiff will send a video message to the conference of Nobel Peace Prize winners... READ MORE›
An estimated 1.5 million people are expected for Tuesday's Mass with Pope Francis in Quito, Ecuador... READ MORE›
Within weeks of taking office, Francis set about tackling the problem of the Vatican bank and the wider finances of the Holy See in three ways... READ MORE›
VATICAN CITY AP -- Pope Francis has lamented that children, as he puts it, are being taught at school that gender can be a choice... READ MORE›
They remained firmly shut to same-sex marriage even as the document said gay people should be treated with respect... READ MORE›
Pope Francis has shown a softer more inclusive stance on core issues of concern to the Catholic Church since being elected Pope on March 13 last year... READ MORE›
In Defense of Trump Some Point Wrongly to Vatican Walls... READ MORE›
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Another rebel official said government forces were also attacking the insurgent-held Handarat refugee camp a few kilometers to the north of Aleppo... READ MORE›
The pope said that the lights, parties, christmas trees and nativity scenes of the season are a charade with so much war and hate... READ MORE›
Pope Francis has called on every religious community across Europe to do their part to stem the refugee crisis and offer sanctuary to migrant families... READ MORE›
Although the first ever encyclical on the environment concentrated heavily on the natural world, the pope repeatedly linked climate change with the plight of the poor... READ MORE›
His book, he said, described a Vatican that is very different from Pope Francis' vision of a church for the poor... READ MORE›
In the encyclical Francis directed sharp criticism at global leaders for their failure to combat climate change... READ MORE›
Still, this month, the pope sent a letter to bishops worldwide, urging them to cooperate with the commission... READ MORE›
But that was before Saturday, when Pope Francis whisked in and pioneered a third a ride with him on a jet bound for Rome... READ MORE›
We need a moral dimension to the climate change debate, and Pope Francis is providing that, Mr. Brown said... READ MORE›
As Pope Francis approaches the fourth anniversary of being elected head of the Roman Catholic Church, he remains an exceedingly popular Catholic leader... READ MORE›
Pope Francis says that Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from homosexuals for the way they have treated them... READ MORE›
Pope Francis called for severe punishment for pedophiles on Sunday after new details emerged in Italy of the 2014 death of a 6-year-old girl who is alleg... READ MORE›
But Francis is also deeply pragmatic, particularly regarding internal church politics... READ MORE›
Pope John Paul II also spoke about the ills of narcotics trafficking... READ MORE›
The planned encounter next Friday between Francis and Patriarch Kirill I at Havana's airport also highlights apparent moves toward greater solidarity amid current worries... READ MORE›
Homosexuality is regarded by the church as intrinsically disordered, a view that has left gay Catholics often sidelined, and gay couples feeling unacknowledged... READ MORE›
Pope Francis called Saturday for a Catholic Church that is far more decentralized, where the laity play a greater role, bishops' conferences take care of c... READ MORE›
The Church must search out these persons, welcome and accompany them, Pope Francis added... READ MORE›
22 and plans to stop in Washington D.C. New York City and Philadelphia... READ MORE›
Behind the scenes, the Secret Service has been mapping out a security strategy for a visit that is virtually unprecedented in nature... READ MORE›
Pope Francis has warned there is a danger Isis jihadists could use the ongoing refugee crisis to infiltrate Europe... READ MORE›
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