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The president may not have approved of Mariann Edgar Budde’s homily at the National Cathedral. But the bishop answered to a ...

A new Sundance documentary, which questions the provenance of a Vietnam War icon, has set off a pitched battle between ...

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

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

By sharing stories of goodness and hope, media professionals help the world to be a little less closed off and a little less ...

Through the centuries it walks with us and, by the power of the Holy Spirit, it is at work in history,” Pope Francis said.

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

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin. Francis didn’t break his arm ...

Pope Francis has established himself as the most trusted public figure in Italy, according to a recent survey conducted by the Demopolis National Research Institute that analyzes trends in Italian ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has named Indian Cardinal George J. Koovakad to be the new prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue. The 51-year-old, who received his red hat from ...

universal values and a culture of encounter,” according to a Vatican statement at that time. Pope Francis joined participants at the end of the summit and encouraged them to be “preachers of ...