Pope Francis regularly irritates individuals with far-right views. He emphasizes that the LGBT community should be accepted.

Pope Francis has written to a group of parents of LGBTQ persons, responding to their criticism of a Vatican document that ...

It was approved on March 25 by Pope Francis, who ordered its publication this week. The document states that God created man and woman as biologically different beings, and that people should not ...

Pope Francis came out strongly against gender theory ... conciliatory—approach to LGBT rights, a difficult circle to square, given that the church is unlikely to alter its position against ...

Pope Francis has visited Venice and took part in a canal tour weeks after asking worshippers to 'pray for him' following a health battle. The head of the Catholic Church appeared in good spirits ...

Neither Benedict nor Francis has yet achieved the lofty heights set by the saintly Pope John Paul II, who in 1990 and 1996 garnered approval from 93% of U.S. Catholics, according to Pew’s data.

The Buenos Aires-born Pope Francis was hospitalized Wednesday for a medical check-up after which he was discharged with a flu-like state as concerns over the 87-year-old Pontiff's health mounted ...

Pope Francis called for peace in his first in-depth interview with an American media outlet. CBS News teased a clip of the hourlong interview that will air May 19. Anchor Norah O’Donnell asked ...

Pope Francis made his first trip out of Rome in seven months on Sunday with a visit to Venice that included an art exhibition, a stop at a prison and a Mass. Venice has always been a place of ...

On Wednesday, April 24, “CBS Evening News” aired portions of an hour-long interview of Pope Francis by CBS anchor and managing editor Norah O’Donnell. The segment was a teaser for a longer ...

But even for a place that prides itself on its culture of unusual encounters, Pope Francis’ visit Sunday stood out. Francis traveled to the lagoon city to visit the Holy See’s pavilion at the ...

Pope Francis has met with women prisoners in Venice who are the protagonists of the Vatican pavilion at the Venice Biennale art fair VENICE, Italy -- Venice has always been a place of contrasts ...