Marking the Holy Year of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis opened a Holy Door at a prison in Rome on Thursday, offering a ...

The pope also voiced concern about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in his Christmas address, labeling the situation ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday , inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that ...

Pope Francis called for a ceasefire on all war fronts in his Sunday Angelus prayer ahead of Christmas, condemning the ...

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI revealed a new-style nativity scene in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square. It depicted Jesus' birth ...

Pope Francis has appointed a new bishop to a Texas-based diocese who will replace a theologically conservative critic of the ...

He made the remarks a day after the start of the Roman Catholic Church’s Holy Year, known as a Jubilee, which takes place ...

Pope Francis called on Catholics to become “pilgrims of hope” in a BBC podcast, emphasizing that “hope and kindness touch the ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said “Pope Francis sometimes likes to ...

Pope Francis prayed that the Jubilee Year may become “a season of hope” and reconciliation in a world at war and suffering ...

The head of the Catholic Church wished listeners ‘peace, fellowship and gratitude’ in the new year as he gave the Thought for ...

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) is the head of the Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome. This essay has been adapted ...