The pontiff briefly met with Vice President JD Vance. The visit came days after Francis rebuked the Trump administration for its immigration crackdown and slashing of international aid.

While Pope Francis has been on the mend from double pneumonia, he remains frail and did not lead Easter services.

Christians celebrate this resurrection at Easter and marvel at the potential for the moribund to become filled with life ...

COMMENTARY: April 19 marks the 20th anniversary of the election as pope of one of the most consequential ecclesial figures of ...

Pope Francis has long advocated for immigrants, refugees, and the vulnerable—but the Church, like other institutions, may need to find new ways to sustain its commitments.

Pope Pius X was born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto in 1835. He served as pope from 1903 to 1914, and was canonized in 1954. He ...

His election reflected a broader geographical shift in the church. Although the Vatican has been Catholicism’s spiritual and ...

The Sagrada Familia has faced the Spanish Civil War, fires, the COVID-19 pandemic and periods of economic growth and downturn. The ambitious church, situated in the Eixample district of Barcelona, is ...

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and five men, including Antoni Gaudí, the Spanish architect who ...

A miracle!” Pope Francis’s pontificate has been both improbable, and in its own way, miraculous. From his first public words, ...

Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published almost 10 years ago. This environmental text sought to move the ...