Environmentalists have called on the pope to halt the chopping down of a tree destined for St. Peter’s Square this Christmas, ...

ROME -- A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives met Thursday with Pope Francis and ...

Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period ...

Referencing the concept of “climate finance,” Pope Francis said in a message to the U.N. climate summit on Wednesday that ...

The pope declared that part of the archives and library be moved to a building on extraterritorial Vatican property at the ...

The Vatican has announced the appointment of Capuchin Father Roberto Pasolini as the new papal preacher, succeeding Cardinal ...

Pope Francis himself attended most days. The discussions at each table followed a set format (brief comments by each speaker, followed by silent prayer) and were punctuated by intervals in which ...

With financing the major focus here at the United Nations climate change conference, Cardinal Pietro Parolin delivered ...

The petition, started by the Bearsandothers Association, urges Pope Francis, the Vatican Governorate, and local authorities ...

Announced by the Italian publisher Mondadori at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany October 16, a new autobiography of Pope Francis will be published next January, titled Hope. The book will be ...

Following Lumen fidei (2013), which continued a text prepared by Benedict XVI intended to complete his trilogy on the theological virtues (hope, charity, and faith), Pope Francis’ next two ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis on Sunday said Sunday he hoped the annual climate summit known as COP29, which starts Monday in ...