VATICAN CITY (RNS) – After receiving backlash from Jewish groups, the Vatican chose to not put the keffiyeh back in its ...

Pope Francis encouraged those present to be “people on the journey” who always have the desire to continue, “always with the ...

Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and involving ...

Pope Francis has condemned an Israeli air strike in Gaza which killed seven children from the same family in the Jabalia refugee camp. In his annual Christmas message, Pope Francis said ...

the black-and-white checkered headscarf that has become a potent symbol of the Palestinian cause. Pope Francis had prayed before the creche briefly that day when he greeted the artists and donors ...

Two attempts to assassinate Pope Francis when he made a historic visit ... he wrote in “Hope,” it “presented itself to my eyes as an expanse of rubble” and “appeared to me from above ...

Pope Francis is the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome. Life inevitably has its sadnesses, which are part of every path of hope and every path toward conversion. But it is ...

AJACCIO, France: Pope Francis urged Catholic priests on Sunday (Dec 15) to guard against spiritual groups that stoke political divisions, speaking during a one-day visit to Corsica, the first by a ...

AJACCIO, Corsica (AP) — Pope Francis on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica on Sunday called for a dynamic form of laicism, promoting the kind of popular piety that ...

Pope Francis on the first papal visit ever to the French island of Corsica on Sunday called for a dynamic form of laicism, promoting the kind of popular piety that distinguishes the Mediterranean ...

Pope Francis urged Catholic priests on Sunday to guard against spiritual groups that stoke political divisions, speaking during a one-day visit to Corsica, the first by a pontiff to the French ...