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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In a brief press conference on the plane returning from Belgium, Pope Francis answered questions including one on Israel’s ...

On Sunday Pope Francis closed his visit to Belgium with the beatification of Spanish nun and missionary Anne of Jesus, ...

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

Pope Francis on Sept. 29 strongly condemned the disproportionate use of military force for the purposes of retaliation and ...

During a visit to the Catholic king’s tomb on Saturday in Belgium, Pope Francis lauded Belgian King Baudouin for choosing to ...

Pope Francis expelled 10 people—a bishop, priests and laypeople—from the Sodalitium, a Catholic movement centered in Peru, on ...