On Sunday, Pope Francis marked the Day for Life in Italy, which has the theme “Transmitting life, hope for the world.” The ...

In a video conference with 250 young Ukrainians from Kyiv and around the world, Pope Francis listened to their testimonies, ...

Megawati Soekarnoputri, Indonesia's fifth president, is scheduled to hold a special meeting with Pope Francis during the ...

Caught between his progressive inner circle and an influx of conservatism, the Holy Father should 'brace' himself for a ...

The sacred performance signals a deepening of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue and a potential step toward a papal visit to Serbia.

The pontiff addressed the topic of marriage’s indissolubility, or permanence, in a meeting with members of the Roman Rota, ...

An Italian priest has been excommunicated from the Catholic Church for saying Pope Francis is not the real pope. Father Natale Santonocito (61), parish priest of the San Cesareo church south-east of ...

Pope Francis has long urged couples to marry and have babies rather than dogs. He also has long championed the rights of workers and held up labor itself as the foundation of human dignity.

It has come as a surprise to many in the Holy See that the Vatican bank fired a newlywed couple, with three young children between them, after a new internal bank regulation went into effect barring ...

Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

A young Italian couple is going to court in the Vatican tribunal to challenge a new ban ...

its universal vocation," the pope said, speaking of the ancient imperial capital. Francis elaborated on the contemporary relevance of this vocation, rooted in antiquity when Rome presided over an ...