Pope Francis on Feb. 8 exhorted global governments to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic focused on creating a fairer market economy, addressing the rapidly escalating dangers of climate change ...

In this file photo, Pope Francis arrives for an audience with representatives of the popular movements at the Vatican Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.) Listen ROME — One of ...

Pope Francis tours St. Peter's Square in his popemobile after bestowing the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal ...

Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88, fought for social justice and the marginalized.He pressed for nuclear disarmament and an end to wars in Sudan, Gaza and Ukraine. He decried what he once ...

'I fear a world without him': Pope Francis was a global influencer. Here's how he did it. In his final weeks, even during his hospitalization for pneumonia, Pope Francis held nightly video calls ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of ...

Francis-aligned’ bishops are following the late pope’s lead in stirring debate where politics and pastoral issues meet.

Pope Leo XIV is heading to the papal summer residence for a six-week vacation. He's giving the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo back its most illustrious resident after Pope Francis stayed away ...

Pope Francis has issued a message to the world’s children in anticipation of the Church’s first World Children’s Day, which will take place in Rome May 25-26, reminding them that the key to ...

With those words, Pope Francis changed my life,” wrote John Boehner, former speaker of the U.S. House and a lifelong Catholic, in a tribute on X. Boehner has previously explained that the visit ...