Pope Francis significantly widened the scope of the next planned meeting of the world's Catholic bishops, postponing the event by one year to allow for periods of consultation in every local ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday encouraged people to look for the quiet goodness in the world, even when the tendency is to pay more attention to failure and scandal. “Just think how many hidden seeds ...

American Catholic conservatives hoping that the next pontiff is more to their liking ideologically than 86-year-old Pope Francis are likely to be disappointed, according to a number of experts in ...

Christ is with us and walking beside us in our daily journey through life, including our struggles to be holy, Pope Francis said Sunday. Emphasizing that Jesus is not just a historical figure, the ...

Doctors treating Pope Francis say he is recovering well from surgery, but have asked him not to deliver his Sunday blessing from a hospital balcony. He underwent a three-hour operation to repair ...

Pope Francis greets Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian bishops' conference, during a meeting with representatives of most of Italy's 227 dioceses and their programs to encourage the ...

Pope Francis arrives in Mongolia for first visit by a pontiff as Vatican relations with Russia and China remain strained ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia -- Pope Francis arrives in Mongolia for first visit ...

Pope Francis admitted during a Monday speech that priests and nuns watch the "vice of porn," and said that "the devil enters from there and weakens the soul." Francis made the comment during to ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis underwent successful surgery Wednesday to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, the latest maladies to befall the 86-year-old pontiff ...

Weighing in at a gargantuan 261 pages, Amoris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”) is, by my quick reckoning, the longest such document in the history of the papal magisterium, and by a good 10 ...

Pope Francis arrives to attend his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican on Wednesday. It was Francis’ first general audience since undergoing planned surgery to remove half ...

Pope Francis last week told editors of the European cultural magazines of the Society of Jesus that, in his opinion, World War III had been declared, it was reported Tuesday by La Civilta Cattolica.