Pope's grand tour of Italy over the next few months takes him to Lampedusa and beyond - The Vatican has announced that Pope Leo XIV will travel up and down the Italian peninsula over the next few mont ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Pope Francis is back at the Vatican in Rome after a busy 10-day trip to Cuba and the United States. He left Philadelphia on Sunday night after participating in the World Meeting of ...

ROME — Pope Francis is participating in the Vatican’s weeklong spiritual retreat from a Rome hospital as he continued his recovery on Monday from double pneumonia and looks ahead to the 12th ...

In a wide-ranging interview with an Italian paper, Card. Camillo Ruini offered a forthright assessment of the Francis pontificate and flatly called Benedict XVI’s decision to resign “a mistake.” ...

BAGHDAD — Pope Francis has wrapped up a historic whirlwind tour of Iraq that sought to bring hope to the country’s marginalized Christian minority with a message of coexistence, forgiveness and peace.

Pope Leo XIV opened the Catholic church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over the Ash Wednesday Mass in Rome.

Pope Francis, a lover of classical music, slipped out of the Vatican on Tuesday evening to visit old friends who run a Rome record shop and came away with a gift of a CD. The visit was to have ...