One day Pope Francis called him ... Perhaps one day, he thought, he would work at CERN in Geneva. In his 20s, too, he still hoped to be a particle physicist. Somewhere in that extraordinary ...

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 ...

Mary is always the mother that brings us to Jesus,” the Holy Father said. “Mary does not only point to herself. She points to Jesus.” ...

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 ...

Pope Francis — or his social media manager, I’m guessing — is pretty active on X (formerly Twitter), with Biblical quotes, prayers and messages to the world. But the @Pontifex account has ...

Geneva (AFP) – The next head of Europe's CERN physics laboratory said Thursday that he favoured moving forward with plans for a giant particle collider far more powerful than the collider that ...

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

By Emma Bubola Reporting from the Vatican Pope Francis issued a new pastoral letter on Thursday in which he urged Roman Catholics around the world to let go of consumerism and individualism ...