The Vatican on Saturday published the schedule for Pope Francis’ consistory to create new cardinals, stating that the liturgy will take place on Dec. 7 — not Dec. 8, as previously announced.

VATICAN CITY, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Pope Francis faced calls to overturn the Catholic Church’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people on Saturday when he held talks with LGBTQ ...

CNA explains what was behind the viral photo of Pope Francis sitting before an ancient wooden chair during the first day of ...

VATICAN CITY, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Pope Francis will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday morning, the Vatican said on Wednesday. Francis last saw the Ukrainian president on the ...

The film, which made its debut at the 51st Telluride Film Festival back in August, is a political thriller set in the holy city after the death of the Pope as an election is about to get underway.

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reported from Rome In announcing on Sunday that he would appoint 21 new cardinals, Pope Francis once again elevated clerics from far beyond Catholicism’s traditional ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals Sunday, significantly increasing the size of the College of Cardinals and further cementing his mark on the group of prelates who will one day ...

When Pope Francis' plane touched down in Dili, the capital of East Timor — the most Catholic country on earth outside the Vatican — the first to greet the pope was not the nation's president ...

Pope Francis has pledged to root out the “scourge” of clerical sexual abuse after Belgium’s prime minster urged him in unusually frank terms to take concrete action. Francis was addressing ...

It's not the figurehead you'd expect for the universal basic income movement, which is mostly driven by tech CEOs in Silicon Valley, but it's the one with by far the most followers: Pope Francis.

The delegation left Beigang on Sept. 19 with a gold and a jade effigy of Mazu to hand over to the Pope at the Vatican, Taiwan’s only official diplomatic ally in Europe. To celebrate the 330 th ...

By Emma Bubola Reporting from Rome Pope Francis canceled appointments on Monday because of a mild flu, according to the Vatican, which said the move was a precautionary step as the pontiff ...