After easing his schedule at the start of the week, Pope Francis will begin his second trip of the month September 26 to ...

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 ...

The Vatican said the encounter lasted more than two hours, and that the pope listened to them and "expressed shame for what they suffered as children". Francis has made addressing abuse by clergy ...

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 ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Belgium’s prime minister has blasted Pope Francis for the Catholic Church’s horrific legacy of clerical ...

Pope Francis at his general audience on Wednesday called pornography a work of the devil and warned Christians to reject this and other temptations accessed through the internet. “Any cellphone ...

After meeting with the President of Indonesia and greeting the authorities and diplomatic corps, at about 11:30 a.m. on ...

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 ...

Despite suffering a mild flu Monday, Pope Francis still plans to travel later this week to Luxembourg and Belgium to visit a once-solid bastion of Roman Catholic culture that now has decreasing ...

Always smiling.” Topics covered in the rest of the press conference, which lasted 40 minutes, included China, the upcoming US election and the Gaza conflict. Pope Francis did not shy away from ...

Belgium's prime minister and king delivered blunt criticism of the Catholic Church's record of clerical sexual abuse and cover-ups in the country during a welcome speech to Pope Francis ...

How has China followed Pope Francis' Asian tour, and what interests has it seen in it? Michel Chambon: Beijing has closely observed the entirety of this trip, seeking to assess to what extent Pope ...