Pope Francis is not expected to veto President Donald Trump's choice of a high-profile critic of his papacy as the next U.S.

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae ...

Pope Francis has hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prays will be undertaken ...

Pope Francis warned Wednesday against a "chauvinistic mentality" in the Catholic Church, as he promoted a nun to head the executive administration of the tiny Vatican City state.

Various videos claim Pope Francis's successor has been appointed, but that's not how a new bishop of Rome is chosen. How does ...

The pontiff, speaking during an Italian television interview, was asked about the incoming Trump administration’s plans to expel undocumented immigrants through an aggressive slate of ...

Pope Francis delivered dual messages to Donald Trump on his inauguration as president, urging him to reject "hatred, discrimination or exclusion" and denouncing Trump's migrant deportation plan as ...

FILE - Vatican investigators Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, right, from Spain, and Archbishop Charles Scicluna, from Malta, walk outside of the Nunciatura Apostolica during a break from meeting with ...

Pope Francis on Sunday thanked the mediators who brokered the latest ceasefire deal in Gaza, which came into effect on Jan. 19. After praying the Angelus with thousands of pilgrims gathered in ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prayed would be undertaken elsewhere, as he welcomed an agreement the Vatican ...