On the first day of 2025, Pope Francis warned Christians against “imagining or inventing a God in the abstract” during his ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church ...

On Sunday, the feast of the Holy Family, Pope Francis highlighted the Family of Nazareth as a model of dialogue and mutual listening while warning against allowing mobile phones to disrupt family ...

Pope Francis "was saddened to learn" of former US President Jimmy Carter's death, the Vatican's secretary of state said Monday. "The pope offered "heartfelt condolences" while recalling Carter's ...

Highlights of the year included Pope Francis’ longest trip, an 11-day journey through Asia and Oceania; the conclusion of the ...

Francis is the first pope from the Americas ... and openness that has defined his leadership of the church's nearly 1.4 billion Catholics. He put them and the world on notice, during an impromptu ...

On this week's 60 Minutes, correspondent Norah O'Donnell sat down with Pope Francis for a historic interview. The head of the Catholic Church for more than a decade, Francis had previously never ...

The pope, who turned 88 Dec. 17, mostly uses a wheelchair and presides over rather than concelebrates most public liturgies.

The papal basilica, also known as the 'Bethlehem of the West,' houses both the venerated icon of Mary and relics of Christ’s ...

In New Orleans, Celebration Is Followed by Terror in the French Quarter The attack left 15 dead and about three dozen injured. The authorities described it as an act ...