BALTIMORE As U.S. Catholic bishops gathered for their annual fall meeting this week in Baltimore, the specter of ...

Pope Francis expressed hope that both the incoming and outgoing U.S. administrations will collaborate to secure the return of ...

Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period ...

ANALYSIS: Here are four important takeaways from the bishops’ most recent gathering in ‘America’s Premier See.’ ...

Christian martyrs from across denominations hold a place of honor in the church, Pope Francis said, highlighting their ...

Pope Francis on Friday appointed a Filipino missionary priest one of the two new auxiliary bishops in Australia. The Vatican ...

ROME -- A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives met Thursday with Pope Francis and ...

Environmentalists have called on the pope to halt the chopping down of a tree destined for St. Peter’s Square this Christmas, ...

Pope Francis gestures as he shakes hands with Yelena Troufanov, who was part of a delegation of Israelis who were freed after ...

Online visitors can navigate the Vatican basilica’s mosaics, the cupola, the underground necropolis and Peter’s tomb. A ...

to decorate St. Peter's Square and the Vatican for Christmas. The petition, started by the Bearsandothers Association, urges ...

His other was St. Jude, despite he and my mom working two or more jobs ... (Papal encyclicals all take their title from the ...