Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin.

ROME – “I like punctuality. It’s a virtue I have learnt to appreciate,” Pope Francis writes in the fifth chapter of his autobiography, to be published on Jan 14 in 18 languages ...

At the beginning of Pope Francis’s papacy his controversial predecessor handed him a large white box stuffed with confidential documents relating to the “most difficult and painful situations ...

Pope Francis cites Benedict XVI only in a few passages in his over 300-page autobiography Pope Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, handed him a large white box containing several confidential ...

Mondadori, the book’s Italian publisher, said the new volume was originally planned by Pope Francis to be released after his death. But the Pope decided it should instead be published during the ...

President Biden honored Pope Francis with the Presidential ... weekend and present the medal to Francis in person, but he canceled what would have been his final overseas trip as president so ...

It is the only Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction he has awarded. President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis with a Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction during a phone call on ...

Pope Francis on Sunday celebrated the feast of the ... in the joy of the family,” he prayed. In his Jan. 12 Angelus address, the Holy Father said Christians should know and celebrate the date ...

With the jubilee we start a new life, a new phase.” Faithful reach out to greet Pope Francis as he makes his way through the crowd in the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall during the first jubilee ...

Biden, the nation's second Catholic president, called Pope Francis to award him the medal. It's the only time Biden has given out that specific award during his four-year term. In his call with ...

President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction to Pope Francis days before leaving ... Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, for his last foreign trip as president.

The president was present at the start of the pope's tenure in 2013, when Biden, then in his capacity as vice president, led the American delegation for Francis' inauguration. Francis, 88 ...