The papers were burned without having even been opened and a new fifth ballot called. Also read: Pope Francis ‘saddened’ by havoc caused by LA wildfires, expresses ‘spiritual closeness ...

Did the pope endorse a Vatican-style ministate for a Muslim community on Thursday? The press in Albania seems to think so, ...

ROME (AP) — An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the ... church more than a decade after he was provincial of the order in Argentina. The period is mentioned only in passing ...

Lawrence is a cog in the bureaucracy that underpins the smooth running of the Vatican, albeit an important one: as Dean of the College of Cardinals, he will oversee the election of the new Pope.

Pope Francis recently appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy, a harsh critic of President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration policy, ...

Pope Francis’s autobiographical meditations open ... by both the politics of modern Italy and the experience of making a life in a new environment on the other side of the world, is vivid and ...

Pope Francis has declared a sort of holy war on the Mafia. And it's not unreasonable to believe that the Mafia may fight back. On Saturday, the pope traveled to Calabria, the heartland of one of ...

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The Autobiography” was only supposed to be published after Francis’ death. But at his own request, the book is hitting bookshelves now in more than 80 countries to coincide with the start of the ...

A bout of sciatic pain in the final days of 2020 keeps Pope Francis from presiding at the Vatican’s liturgies on New Year’s Eve ... of his doctors, and in order not to jeopardize the results ...

Bishop Frederik Hansen, who selected Lex tua veritas — “Your law is truth” — as his episcopal motto, succeeds Bishop Bernt ...

Archbishop Jeffrey Grob, a Wisconsin native, was installed as Milwaukee’s 12th archbishop during a Mass at the Cathedral of ...