Who is Pope Francis? His pontificate will be ten years old in March, yet he continues to shock people within the Catholic ...

At the start of Benedict's tenure in 2007, the newly-installed pope met with Putin for what was considered at the time to be the highest-level Kremlin-Vatican talks in more than three years ...

A big story the past year has been the firming alliance between the world’s two leading autocrats, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China ... the West is finished—Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Earlier this week, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen told Pope Francis that Putin's invasion of Ukraine has underscored the ...

Those conservative Christians in the United States who delude themselves that President Vladimir Putin and Russia, under his ...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday hailed the late pope Benedict XVI as a "defender of traditional Christian values". "Benedict XVI was an eminent religious and state figure ...

Getty Images Then Pope Benedict XVI and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin spoke at the Vatican in 2007. AP Benedict XVI died at 9:34 AM local time in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in Vatican City.

Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin described Pope Benedict XVI as “a prominent religious figure and statesman (and) a staunch defender of traditional Christian values.” Japanese Prim ...

The Ukrainian people are grateful to Pope Francis for his prayers, for providing humanitarian aid and, above all, for the ...

Pope Francis greets people as he attends a holy mass at Bahrain National Stadium during his apostolic journey, in Riffa, ...

Pope Francis criticized "unjust" laws criminalizing homosexuality in an interview Tuesday. "Being homosexual isn't a crime," he told The Associated Press in a wide-ranging interview at the Vatican, ...