As Christmas coincided with the start of the 2025 Holy Year celebration that he dedicated to hope, Francis called for broad ...

Across faiths and across the globe, prominent individuals whose legacies are likely to continue to shape their ministries and ...

President Biden has spared the lives of 37 of 40 federal death row prisoners by commuting their sentences to life in prison.

Just four states were responsible for three-quarters of the executions that took place in the U.S. in 2024, according to a ...

Biden could use his authority to grant commutations to convert existing federal death sentences into life in prison. That ...

Pope Francis has opened the great Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica. The ceremony kicks off the 2025 Holy Year.

Pope Francis insisted that a “just and lasting peace” can only be achieved in our world if people first turn to the “Father ...

Pope Francis called for peace around the world and for global conflicts to end in his annual “Urbi et Orbi” Christmas message ...

The 88-year-old Pope Francis presided over Mass during the Night on Christmas Eve after opening the Holy Door to officially ...

For many people around the world, Christmas is a time of parties, family and friends gatherings, but in religious terms, especially for Christians, it celebrates the birth of Jesus ...