Pope Francis praised priests as "heroic" witnesses but called on them to move closer to Christ through adversity such as ...
But when an aide presented Francis with his glasses to begin reading, the pope made clear he wouldn't deliver the remarks, ...
Many of the female inmates wept as Francis washed their feet, saying “With this gesture, he makes us understand what he had ...
Pope Francis, at 87 increasingly weak and wobbly, takes a trip down memory lane and speaks of his hopes for the Roman ...
ROME — Pope Francis skipped delivering the traditional homily on Palm Sunday to kick off the Catholic faith’s Holy Week, ...
Pope Francis on Saturday (March 16) skipped readings at the meeting with staff and children of ''Bambino Gesu'' pediatric hospital, delegating the task to an aide as he was still suffering from a cold ...
Having covered the Vatican for 27 years — that's three popes — Associated Press photographer Andrew Medichini has mastered snapping images of papal pomp.
The book amounts to a personal history — and defense — from a pontiff regularly embraced by liberals and pilloried by ...
In an excerpt from his new memoir, Pope Francis talks about the woman who almost had his heart before he gave it to God ...
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, a Jesuit, became pope of the Catholic Church. He chose the name of Francis.
Pope Francis is attending a Palm Sunday service today in St Peter’s Square, at the Vatican. It comes a year after he led the ...