Pope Francis has named a new head of the Archdiocese of Detroit, a bishop from Arizona who was introduced to the community ...

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of an influential Peruvian bishop, who has come under criticism for not doing ...

After giving the speech over to an aide during the homily, the Pope resumed reading for the shorter Angelus prayer. Francis, ...

Pope Francis took the remarkable step of addressing the U.S. migrant crackdown in a letter to U.S. bishops who have ...

IN October 1927, failure by a family of Italian emigrants to sell their belongings in time for their voyage to Argentina may ...

Pope Francis has issued a major rebuke to the Trump administration’s mass deportation of migrants. He warned that the program to forcefully deport people purely because of their illegal status ...

An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret 2013 conclave that elected him pope and the resistance he has encountered ever since, in his ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis warned of the “scourge of antisemitism” in his Angelus prayer on Sunday, the eve of the ...

Pope Francis' autobiography, Hope, reaches bookstores in more than 80 countries on Tuesday (January 14), according to its publisher, Penguin Random House. The plan was to publish the pope's ...

World leaders met in the Vatican for the World Meeting on Children’s Rights, issuing an appeal for more to be done to implement international conventions and not remain indifferent to the rising ...

The pontiff noted that this year marks 80 years since the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. Pope Francis delivers his Angelus address from the window of the ...