VATICAN CITY (CNS) --The church is like a bicycle -- it stays upright as long as it keeps moving, Pope Francis said. The first disciples "were not a closed group of the elect, but a missionary ...

Rome Newsroom, May 17, 2023 / 07:33 am. Pope Francis on Wednesday met briefly with a group of abuse victims who undertook a bicycle pilgrimage from Germany to Rome this month to ask the pope to do ...

Pope Francis took one last ride in a Mercedes before death. History of the 'popemobile.' One of the first motorized popemobiles was a black Graham-Paige Type 837, gifted to Pope Pius XI in 1929.