The condition, which entails pneumonia in both lungs, is potentially grave, according to health experts. Pope Francis, who ...

Even while Pope Francis is hospitalized, he still keeps in touch with a Roman Catholic parish in Gaza City, making near-nightly phone calls to the priest and congregation there.

The Vatican has canceled papal audiences through the weekend and delegated others to cover for Pope Francis as the ...

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In a homily read by Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, artists were urged to be “witnesses to the revolutionary vision of the Beatitudes.” ...

Pope Francis has been known for his down-to-earth leadership, support of marginalized communities and interreligious dialogue.

Pope Francis has a “polymicrobial infection” of his respiratory tract that will require his hospital treatment to be changed, ...

American prelate, an exploding battleship, and the Roman Question all fed into Pope Leo XIII's decision to publish his 1899 ...

The pope also extended his greetings to the thousands of artists who had come to celebrate their Jubilee in Rome this weekend ...

Sichko is one of hundreds of such missionaries appointed by Francis. They are assigned to travel the world spreading kindness, forgiveness, joy and mercy to people they encounter. Sichko, 58, said he ...

Campaign groups have submitted petitions to recall 19 Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT ... President William Lai (賴清德) told Pope Francis in a letter, adding that he agrees war has no winners. The ...

After China announced retaliatory tariffs against the United States, walkers along Shanghai's waterfront were stoic Tuesday in face of both the cold and the prospect of an escalating trade war.