JERUSALEM — Hope, the theme chosen by Pope Francis for Jubilee 2025, is in short supply in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza ...

Pope Francis had a busy schedule, holding a new weekly general audience, being awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom ...

One of Francis’ lasting reforms will be his reshaping of the papacy to embrace simplicity and humility. In a new ...

The Catholic Church teaches that hope is one of the three theological virtues — along with faith and charity — which God ...

All of this under the rubric of hope, a theme that is also being highlighted during the 2025 Jubilee. In a recent interview, ...

The Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian naval ship named after the 15th-century explorer that inspired the name “America,” has been ...

"Each time a pope takes ill, the winds of a conclave always feel as if they are blowing," Francis writes in his new memoir, referring to centuries-old tradition of cardinals gathering in the pope's ...

At the beginning of Pope Francis’s papacy his controversial predecessor handed him a large white box stuffed with ...

In his first Saturday Jubilee Audience, Pope Francis highlights the Jubilee as a time for a new beginning, rooted in the ...

Pope Francis launches a Jubilee of Hope with the opening of the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, symbolizing reconciliation ...

While saying he never expected to be pope this long, in his new autobiography, Pope Francis said he still has dreams for the ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C. (Public Domain photo) As the ...