The Vatican released the Holy Father’s message while the 88-year-old Pontiff continues his convalescence in his Casa Santa ...

Hundreds of “Missionaries of Mercy” — priests with the authority to “pardon sins reserved to the Holy See” —gathered in Rome on Sunday for a special Mass connected to the Jubilee of Hope.

Pope Francis said Sunday that he was experiencing Lent as a period of healing in his Angelus address, the text of which the Vatican released only in written form as he was again unable to read it out ...