Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Francis leads his Sunday Angelus prayer from Santa Marta Chapel at the Vatican. Vatican Media/IPA via ZUMA Press/dpa Pope ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis pushed open the great bronze doors of St. Peter’s Basilica today to launch his Holy Year of Mercy, declaring that mercy trumps moralizing in his Catholic Church.

An authentic Christian community knows how to sincerely and joyfully welcome everyone: Catholics, non-Catholics and people of no faith at all, Pope Leo XIV said. "A true parish" is where "we all learn ...