The entire board of the Vatican's financial regulator has been dismissed by Pope Francis as he looks to reform the…
Pope Francis is visiting Yad Vashem - Israel's national Holocaust memorial - on the final leg of his three-day Middle…
Pope Francis has prayed at Bethlehem wall during his three-day tour of the Middle East. The unscheduled stop came after…
Pope Francis has urged for an end to the "increasingly unacceptable" Palestinian-Israeli conflict during a visit to the West Bank…
Pope Francis arrives in Jordan at the start of a three-day visit to the Middle East which will also take…
Pope Francis approved a miracle credited to the intercession of Pope Paul VI - who died in 1978 after a…
Pope Francis has declared Popes John Paul II and John XXIII saints in a ceremony attended by hundreds of thousands…
Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII’s canonization is bringing attention to the complex process of becoming a saint,…
Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII are to be declared saints at an unprecedented open-air ceremony in Rome…
Pope Francis led his second Easter Mass and delivered the Urbi et Orbi message on Easter Sunday in front of…
People have gathered in St Peter's Square for the Easter Sunday Mass led by Pope Francis. After leading the ceremony…
Easter's Holy Fire ceremony has been celebrated at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The Holy Fire is…
Easter's Way of the Cross procession in Rome has been led by Pope Francis, with prayers for the poor and…
Pope Francis marked Palm Sunday in a packed St. Peter's Square ignoring his prepared homily and spoke entirely off-the-cuff in…
Pope Francis has made his strongest condemnation yet of child abuse by Catholic clergy on Friday, asking for forgiveness and…
President Barack Obama has met Pope Francis for the first time during a European tour dominated by the crisis in…
Pope Francis has formally accepted the resignation of suspended Bishop of Limburg Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, the Vatican has announced in…
Pope Francis warned gangsters that they will go to hell unless they repent and stop doing evil as he is…
The Vatican is celebrating Pope Francis’ first year in office. The pontiff is currently on a week-long spiritual retreat with…
A recent Pew Research Center poll has found that 40% of American Catholics are praying more often than they did…
President Vladimir Putin has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize despite escalating tensions over sending Russian troops to Ukraine’s…
Russell Crowe has launched a campaign to have his new Biblical epic Noah screened for Pope Francis. Russell Crowe plays…
Pope Francis has appointed 19 new cardinals at a ceremony in Rome - the first such appointments of his papacy.…
Pope Francis has appointed 19 new cardinals at St Peter's Basilica ceremony in Rome. This is the first such appointments…
Pope Francis’ Harley-Davidson has been sold for 210,000 euros ($284,000) at Bonhams auction in Paris. The motorbike was auctioned to…