Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period ...

ROME -- A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives met Thursday with Pope Francis and ...

Environmentalists have called on the pope to halt the chopping down of a tree destined for St. Peter’s Square this Christmas, ...

Pope Francis gestures as he shakes hands with Yelena Troufanov, who was part of a delegation of Israelis who were freed after ...

With financing the major focus here at the United Nations climate change conference, Cardinal Pietro Parolin delivered ...

Eldest son of Grand Duke Henri and Grand Duchess Maria Teresa was appointed lieutenant-representative in October ...

The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality was nothing like papal gatherings of cinematic lore, but it clearly reflects Francis’s view ...

Prominent Luxembourg defence lawyer Gaston Vogel, who defended cases ranging from a suspect in a series of 1980s bomb attacks ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis’ years-long process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of giving women more equity, but reflected the pope’s ...

Pope Francis' child protection board called Tuesday for victims of clergy sexual abuse to have greater access to information about their cases and the right to compensation, in the first-ever ...

Twice in past years, I hopped a flight to Rome in order to cover one of the most arcane, storied and secretive events in human history: the election of a new pope. That event is also known as a ...

The outcome calmed the fears of church conservatives that Pope Francis’ “Synod on Synodality” would serve as a smokescreen for radical change while leaving liberals, who had seen it as their ...