ROME -- Pope Leo XIV celebrated on Wednesday what has been dubbed the first “green” papal Mass, using a new set of prayers ...

We live in a world that is burning’ - The Pope, who has been vacationing outside Rome, says the world is experiencing a ...

Pope Francis’ first words delivered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica were a simple greeting: “Brothers and sisters, good evening!” ...

Pope Leo XIV held what has been dubbed the first “green” papal Mass on Wednesday, using a new set of prayers imploring care ...

The Vatican announced that Pope Francis died on Monday at the age of 88. Here are some of the pontiff's most memorable quotes. Pope Francis often spoke of acceptance and compassion towards fellow ...

Note: Pope Francis’s first language was Spanish, and he was fluent and comfortable in Italian and Latin. Thus, his English-language quotes are almost always translations.

In his Message for the 10th World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, Pope Leo XIV quotes extensively from Pope Francis’ ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, died on April 21, 2025. Soon after the announcement of his death, people shared various statements and quotes he made over the course of his term ...

Pope Leo XIV has warned of the dangers of climate change as much of Europe swelters under a heatwave. "Extreme natural phenomena caused by climate changes provoked by human activity are growing in ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Few moments in Pope Francis’ papacy better exemplify his understanding of climate change and the need to address it than the rain-soaked Mass he celebrated in Tacloban ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical "Praised Be," Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern.