Cuba has released prominent dissident José Daniel Ferrer from jail, as part of a Cuban government decision to gradually free ...

At the inaugural prayer service, the Right Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, made a direct appeal to ...

Pope Francis has released a memoir in which he addresses many questions and issues surrounding the Catholic Church.

A nun described by Catherine Pepinster, editor of The Tablet from 2004 – 2017 as her “most inspirational teacher” has been ...

Pope Francis has called on parents of children who identify as LGBT to "accompany" them and "not hide in an attitude of condemnation." Speaking before a general audience Wednesday, the pontiff ...

However, what was a maximum for his predecessors seems to have become a minimum for Pope Francis, who announced ... inclusion of remarried divorcees or LGBT people or the role of homosexuals ...

Constantly in the public eye, Pope Francis is instantly recognisable across the globe, and his likeness adorns t-shirts, mugs, calendars, bookmarks, medals and jewellery, among other things. Too ...

Pope Francis shared his prayers and extended "cordial greetings" to President-elect Trump ahead of his inaugural ceremony Monday morning. "I ask God to guide your efforts in promoting peace and ...

Pope Francis sent “cordial greetings” and “assurance of my prayers” to Donald J. Trump on Jan. 20, the day of his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States. In the text ...

ROME — Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he weighed in on the US president’s pledges nearly a decade after ...