Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels -- although just under one ...

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ROME — Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, after years of attempts at reform and a Vatican investigation.

A nun will take over as head of the Vatican City State’s executive branch in March this ... Francis also spoke about mass deportation plans in the US, migration, the two-state solution, and the ...

A bout of sciatic pain in the final days of 2020 keeps Pope Francis from presiding at the Vatican’s liturgies ... a cold right before Christmas. At Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica ...

(Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen Did the pope endorse a Vatican-style ministate for a Muslim community on Thursday? The press in Albania seems to think so, after Pope Francis met with a delegation ...

Lawrence is a cog in the bureaucracy that underpins the smooth running of the Vatican, albeit an important one: as Dean of the College of Cardinals, he will oversee the election of the new Pope.

Pope Francis' arm is in a sling Thursday after the Vatican confirmed he was injured in a fall, the second such incident in a matter of weeks. The Vatican said Francis fell inside his residence ...

Rome — Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin. Francis didn't break his arm, but a sling ...

Pope Francis has fallen over and injured his right arm but did not suffer any broken bones, the Vatican says. In a statement, the Holy See press office said that due to a fall Thursday morning in ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — While firefighters battled blazes in the Los Angeles area this week, Alejandro, a 55-year-old from Mexico, was one of several day laborers leading cleanups near scorched ...

The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis ... move around and has occasional problems with breathlessness. At Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 24, 2024, he could be seen ...