Pope Francis’ arm, tied up in a white sling, was visible in photos taken on the morning of Jan. 16 in the apostolic palace ...

Francis spent much of the past decade in relatively good health but has dealt with several painful medical conditions over ...

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, traveled to Ukraine for Christmas and celebrated an early midnight Mass before the police curfew in ... "The power generators we provided from the Vatican ...

Christians gathered at the Church of the Nativity in the holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday to mark a solemn Christmas overshadowed by war as Pope Francis led mass in the Vatican. In Bethlehem, in the ...

The opening of the Holy Door at St Peter’s Basilica officially launched the Jubilee Year, a Catholic tradition which dates back to the year 1300 and is only held every 25 years. Francis has long made ...

Catholic politics is as intense as the secular kind – particularly now, when clerics worldwide are at odds over how to respond to plummeting mass attendance ... asked the Vatican to investigate.

Seated in his wheelchair in front of the church door, Francis had prayed: "In the joy of Christmas ... Vatican press office had distributed the text of the homily the pope prepared for the Mass ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis holds the cross as he presides over an Epiphany mass in St.Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican ...

Pope Francis presides over the Christmas eve mass in St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Tuesday; Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message Wednesday urged “all people of all nations” to ...

Pope Francis has opened a "Holy Door" for the 2025 Catholic Holy Year at a prison in Rome, bringing a message of hope to inmates and involving them in the Catholic Church's once-every-quarter-century ...