The Holy Father ... concluding, Benedict XVI announced that, just as at the beginning of his pontificate John Paul II had continued the reflections on Christian virtues begun by Pope John Paul ...

Pope Francis made a surprise public appearance on Sunday as he mingled with crowds at the Vatican just two weeks after ...

Pope Francis was not scheduled to make any official appearances this Sunday, however, as Mass for the Jubilee of the Sick and ...

In a moving homily read by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the pontiff described how suffering can become “a place of encounter” ...

This cemetery is named for Saint Callistus, a slave who eventually became the 16th pope (217-222 ... In the 1990s, Father Sabino Palumbieri, a Salesian priest in Rome, helped develop the idea ...

He was 3 when his father ... pontificate of Benedict XVI,” journalist David Gibson wrote in a 2014 article distributed by the Religion News Service. After the ascension of Pope Francis in ...

A Vatican spokesman told journalists the pope had wanted to get some air and then decided to extend his time outside of his ...

Pope Francis made a surprise second appearance Thursday at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, arriving in a wheelchair ...

On other occasions, the pope has blessed the ambulances before the trip, but the Holy See press office did not specify if he did so this time. “The Holy Father has decided to send his eminence ...

Pope Francis made a surprise public appearance on Sunday, the first time the leader of the Catholic Church has been seen in ...

Not only does Easter Sunday commemorate Christians' belief in the Resurrection of Jesus three days after his death by ...