Pope Francis has defended freedom of speech but also stressed its limits following last week's attack on French satirical magazine…
Pope Francis has lost his papal hat as he arrived in windy Manila, the Philippines, on January 15. The Pope…
Hundreds of thousands of cheering people who waited several hours in steaming heat have greeted Pope Francis at his arrival…
Twenty new cardinals have been named by Pope Francis, including churchmen from Tonga, Ethiopia and Myanmar. Fifteen of the new…
Mehmet Ali Agca, who shot and injured former Pope John Paul II in 1981, has laid flowers on the late…
Pope Francis has delivered his second "Urbi et Orbi" - to the city and the world - Christmas message, highlighting…
In a pre-Christmas address to cardinals, Pope Francis has sharply criticized the Vatican bureaucracy, complaining of "spiritual Alzheimer's" and "the…
Pope Francis has declined to meet the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama because of the "delicate situation" with China,…
Cardinal George Pell, the man responsible for the Vatican's finances, says he has found millions of Euros "tucked away" off…
Pope Francis is due to arrive in Istanbul meet Muslim and Christian leaders of the city on the second day…
Pope Francis will arrive in Turkey for what is billed as a historic visit to promote religious dialogue in the…
Pope Francis is visiting Strasbourg where he will address the European Parliament and Council of Europe on social and economic…
The Vatican is raffling off the gifts given to Pope Francis in order to raise money for the poor. A…
Pope Paul VI has been beatified by Pope Francis on the last day of the Synod of Bishops on the…
Proposals for wider acceptance of gay people failed to win a two-thirds majority at the Catholic Church’s Synod on the…
Pope Francis has opened the extraordinary general session of the Synod of Bishops on family life at the Vatican. The…
Three relatives of Pope Francis have been killed when their car slammed into the back of a truck on a…
Pope Francis spoke about an early retirement and his own death for the first time, giving himself "two or three…
Pope Francis has lifted a ban the Catholic Church put on the beatification of murdered Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero over…
Pope Francis has urged for reconciliation between the two Koreas, on the final day of his visit to South Korea.…
Pope Francis has beatified 124 of South Korea's first Catholics at a large open-air Mass in Seoul on Saturday. The…
Pope Francis left Seoul airport in a compact black Kia that many South Koreans would consider too humble a conveyance…
Pope Francis has arrived in South Korea, beginning his first visit to Asia since he took over the papacy in…
Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, the Sudanese woman who fled to Italy after being spared a death sentence for renouncing Islam,…
The profit of the Vatican bank plunged in 2013 largely due to a clean-up process which has seen it end…