In his address, he quoted Benedict XVI: “The Church … grows by ‘attraction.’” Pope Francis stops to pray before an image of Our Lady and the Child Jesus during his weekly general ...

Pope Francis met Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female prime minister, at the Vatican on Tuesday. The private meeting, which lasted a little over 30 minutes, marked the third time in nine days ...

VATICAN CITY, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Monday privately met Archbishop Georg Ganswein, former Pope Benedict's closest aide, who has rattled the Vatican with a book describing what he says ...

On the Solemnity of the Epiphany, Pope Francis said that if the Magi had remained comfortable, they never would have encountered the Lord in Bethlehem. In his homily for the Church’s celebration ...

Back in 2017 I began working on a documentary about the impact Pope Francis was having on the Catholic Church and the world. We were approaching the 5th anniversary of his election and it seemed ...

Pope Francis on Friday issued a document reorganizing the Vicariate of Rome in what he called a time of “epochal change.” The apostolic constitution, In Ecclesiarum Communione, replaces a 1998 ...

STORY: Pope Francis presided at the funeral of former Pope Benedict on Thursday (January 5). Giving an homily that compared his predecessor to Jesus before tens of thousands of mourners at St. Peter's ...

(CNN) — Pope Francis paid tribute to his predecessor former Pope Benedict XVI Thursday, in a funeral attended by tens of thousands of mourners at St. Peter’s Square. The funeral marked the ...

Pope Francis’ short speech honored the former pontiff, whose life’s work was meditating on the life of Jesus, and who faced many challenges before retiring in 2013. Send any friend a story As ...

In one of the rarest of scenes in two millennia of Catholic Church history, Pope Francis on Jan. 5 presided over the funeral Mass of his predecessor, the late Pope Benedict XVI, and offered a ...

Pope Francis presided over the funeral of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, sitting in a wheelchair ... [+] on the altar. More than 135,000 people had arrived in the Vatican to pay tribute to Pope ...