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

Pope Francis called Wednesday for "arms to be silenced" around the world in his traditional Christmas address, appealing for peace in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan as he denounced the ...

Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Christmas Eve to kick off Jubilee 2025. The door, ...

Interview. Church historian Yann Raison du Cleuziou discusses the church’s historical debates on popular religion, ...

VATICAN—Pope Francis has declared the 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns of Compiègne—who were executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution—as saints through the rare procedure of ...

The pope also complained, "Yesterday they (Israel) did not allow the Patriarch (of Jerusalem) into Gaza as promised.” ...

It was a rare decision by Pope Francis that no one in the Church disagreed with – on Wednesday he decided to make the Martyrs of Compiègne officially saints.

VATICAN— Pope Francis has officially declared the 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns of Compiègne, executed during the Reign of ...

Pope Francis has declared as saints 16 Carmelite martyrs executed by guillotine during the French Revolution and confirmed ...

Prompted in part by the 350th-anniversary celebrations of the apparitions of the Heart of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque at Paray-le-Monial, France, Pope Francis looked at how the traditional ...

Pope Francis will travel to Corsica on Sunday ... For instance, the island has one of the highest abortion rates (IVG) in mainland France. Studies also indicated a sharp increase in drug use ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to draw some 32 million pilgrims to Rome in a test of the pope ...