DALLAS — In 1964, Pope Paul VI made history by becoming the first Pope to use a commercial airliner for an official visit. The Vatican chartered a Douglas DC-8. The now-defunct Alitalia operated the ...

Pope Francis visited the Nativity scene on display in St Peter's Square on Tuesday as he is about to embark on his Holy Year.

Pope Francis emphasized that “no child is ever a mistake” during his last Angelus address before Christmas Day. “A child is a gift of life,” the Holy Father told crowds of pilgrims on ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis called for a ceasefire on all war fronts in his Sunday Angelus prayer ahead of Christmas, condemning the “cruelty” of bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine and ...

Pope Francis condemns ongoing strikes on Gaza during the weekly Angelus prayer, saying he thinks of "children being machine-gunned, of the bombings of schools and hospitals." The Barron's news ...

Two attempts to assassinate Pope Francis when he made a historic visit ... population fell to fewer than 250,000 from an estimated 1.4 million before the U.S. invasion of 2003, according to ...

Pope Francis has claimed a plot to assassinate him ... The successful assassination of the pope, head of the roughly 1.3-billion-strong Catholic church, would have had a seismic impact requiring ...

They claimed her use of crucifixes, depictions of saints, and now AI-generated images of the pope were not coincidental but part of a broader effort to provoke. Others referenced her alleged ties ...

Pope Francis was the target of a suicide bombing plot in Iraq in 2021 that was foiled with the help of British intelligence, the pontiff has revealed in his autobiography. To mark his 88th ...

Excerpts from Pope Francis’s upcoming memoir reveal UK surveillance warned of double suicide bomb attack during pontiff’s 2021 visit to Iraq In an excerpt from his forthcoming autobiography ...

On her Instagram story, the 66-year-old singer posted two images of Pope Francis cuddling up to her. In the AI-generated pictures, the Pope has his arm around her lace-dress covered waist with the ...

Two attempted attacks on Pope Francis, including one by a suicide bomber, were foiled during his landmark trip to Iraq in 2021, the pontiff has revealed in an autobiography. The pope wrote that he ...