In his prayer intention for the last month of 2024, Pope Francis called for the upcoming Jubilee of hope to strengthen the Christian faith. He urged Catholics to embrace hope as a transformative ...

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Pope Francis has kicked off the 2025 Holy Year, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to draw ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson picked 10 of 11 people Monday to round out the city’s new half-elected, half-appointed school board — ...

If the 2024 film “ Conclave ” dramatized the Vatican's inner workings with intrigue, Pope Francis delivered something of a ...

Pope Francis has told Vatican bureaucrats to stop speaking ill of one another. A wheezing and congested sounding Francis ...

Supporters with placards greeted him outside the court, some carrying placards with slogans including, “Death by denial is ...

Today in The New York Times, Pope Francis praised the value of joy, humor and laughter, and noted “jokes about and told by ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has revealed he was the target of an attempted suicide bombing during his visit to Iraq ...

The father and stepmother of a severely abused 10-year-old girl found dead in her home in England were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for murder. Urfan Sharif, 42, and Beinash Batool, 30 ...

Last year’s winner, Eve Gilles, attracted criticism for her choice of haircut. Representing Nord-Pas-de-Calais, the northernmost region of France, she became the first contestant with a pixie ...