C onflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s ...

SCIAF – the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in Scotland – has been congratulated on 60 years of service to the world’s poor by Pope Francis. Pope Francis sent a Papal blessing all the way ...

Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor, to Pope Francis on Saturday. The medal was scheduled to be presented to the ...

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

Constantly in the public eye, Pope Francis is instantly recognisable across the globe, and his likeness adorns t-shirts, mugs ...

ROME (Reuters) - Rome's chief Jewish rabbi on Thursday sharply criticised Pope Francis over the pontiff's recent ramping up ...

The rabbi accused Pope Francis of fueling anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish sentiments by focusing on the suffering of ...

Pope Francis has warned of the “scourge of anti-semitism” in his prayer on the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance ...

During an ecumenical prayer service at St. Paul Outside the Walls to mark the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, ...

Francis spent much of the past decade in relatively good health but has dealt with several painful medical conditions over ...