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On Sept. 30, Pope Francis met with a delegation of women at the Vatican who presented voices from the Amazon region and ...

"The Lord summons us out of the small places in which we have taken refuge and in which we have imprisoned others." ...

A woman is more important than a man, but it is terrible when a woman wants to be a man: No, she is a woman,” the pope had ...

Pope Francis has strongly criticized both U.S. presidential candidates over what he calls anti-life policies on abortion and ...

After decades, and controversy, the Vatican has authorized public worship at a shrine in Bosnia, where a once tranquil ...

The Vatican expelled 10 members from Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a group founded in Peru, after investigators reported ...

It is not recorded that the Pope ever asked: "How many divisions has Joseph Stalin?" He knows that Moscow threatens the world not only with its armies but with its perverted faith.

Vatican City is a holy place, home to the pope and the center of Christianity. Very few live in Vatican City, but millions ...

Pope Francis’ call for the release of Myanmar’s jailed democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and his offer of the Vatican as a ...

The move was described as a “precaution” in the statement from the Vatican days before he is to embark on a trip to Belgium ...

Pope Francis has called for the liberation of Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, offering Vatican territory ...