After greeting the groups of international pilgrims in the Vatican’s Paul VI Audience Hall, the Pope asked people to pray for ...

Women religious are meant to be serving the poor, marginalized or vulnerable in society, not be working as servants to ...

Pope Francis is not expected to veto President Donald Trump's choice of a high-profile critic of his papacy as the next U.S.

Austrian cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, a close friend of late pope Benedict XVI and long considered a papal contender ...

Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prayed would be undertaken elsewhere, as he welcomed an agreement the Vatican helped facilitate as ...

The world’s smallest sovereign state has a population of less than 800 and is surrounded by the city of Rome, but the Vatican ...

While many people around the world seek a blessing for their animals around the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi, in ...

Dominican Cardinal Christoph Schönborn concluded his term as archbishop of Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, his 80th birthday, ...

Pope Francis warned Wednesday against a "chauvinistic mentality" in the Catholic Church, as he promoted a nun to head the ...

On the day a ceasefire deal between Hamas militants and Israel went into effect, Pope Francis said he hoped all Israeli and ...

Pope Francis is set to feature in a doc about the positive power of pop culture artists, to be filmed in the Sistine Chapel.

Francis referred to the disaster during his weekly general audience at the Vatican and invoked Our Lady of Guadalupe, who is ...