A priest was excommunicated from a parish in Livorno in January last year for calling Pope Francis a “usurper” in a New Year’s Eve homily, which marked the first anniversary of the death of the pope’s ...

Hope is the mainstay that undergirds Pope Francis’ entire life,” said Carlo Musso, the Italian editor of Pope Francis’ ...

Pope Francis is not expected to veto President Donald Trump's choice of a high-profile critic of his papacy as the next U.S.

An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret 2013 conclave that elected ...

Pope Francis' autobiography was released Tuesday. In it, an introspective pope divulges some of the behind-the-scenes ...

Pope Francis on Monday offered well-wishes to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in a traditional message sent ahead of the ...

Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II ...

Pope Francis on Jan. 19 denounced President Donald Trump's provisional plans to carry out a massive deportation of migrants ...

Pope Francis falls and hurts his arm, Vatican says, weeks after another fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin. Francis didn’t break his arm, but a sling ...

"Pope Francis went on to say that his heart is close to all the people who inhabit the Holy Land, which includes Israelis and ...

"Pope Francis is unlike any who came before," a White ... has pushed to open the Church to the modern world since he took the helm in 2013. He has drawn criticism from some U.S. Catholics for ...