Pope Francis has pledged to root out the “scourge” of clerical sexual abuse after Belgium’s prime minster urged him in unusually frank terms to take concrete action. Francis was addressing ...

The papal trip to Belgium required months of preparations on all fronts, including on the clothing one. The miter and choir ...

If you have hundreds of thousands of adoring worshippers turning out to show their devotion, you want to switch on the style.

People in traditional attire use their phones as Pope Francis holds a holy mass in Port Moresby Mark Baker/AP “We have reorganised our services to reflect that priority”, Richard Moore and ...

The 87-year-old pope brought hundreds of kilograms of items to help support the local population, said Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni. They included various medicines and clothing, as well said ...

Pope Francis told university professors to “seek the truth” in a speech critiquing academia’s tendencies toward relativism and “a technocratic culture” during a visit to a 600-year-old ...

He was gifted a traditional feathered headdress that he chose to wear for part of the event. Pope Francis takes part in a meeting with Catholic faithful of the diocese of Vanimo in front of Holy ...

Pope Francis meets with faithful in Vanimo ... Francis was bringing a cargo of about a ton of medicine, clothing, musical instruments and toys, the Vatican said. Prado said Francis was also ...

Pope Francis took the unusual decision Wednesday to expel 10 people – a bishop, priests and laypeople – from a troubled Catholic movement in Peru after a Vatican investigation uncovered ...

Pope Francis is still widely popular in several Latin American countries. But the portion of people who still see him favorably in his native Argentina has plunged by almost 30 percentage points ...

Pope Francis on Friday urged Catholic voters to "choose the lesser evil" between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. The pope criticized Harris’ support of abortion rights ...

Belgium's prime minister on Friday blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church's horrific legacy of clerical sex abuse and ...