Pope Francis celebrates the First Vespers and Te Deum for the end of the year, in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, 31 December 2024. (Photo by EPA/MASSIMO PERCOSSI /MaxPPP) Seated in a chair at the ...

Pope Francis visited the Nativity scene on display in St Peter's Square on Tuesday as he is about to embark on his Holy Year.

Pope Francis called on Catholics to become “pilgrims of hope” in a BBC podcast on Friday, emphasizing that “hope and kindness ...

Donnelly says he didn’t go looking for the ambassador’s job, but he took it because President Biden asked him to.

Pope Francis celebrated first vespers for the vigil of the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, in St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday.

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, whose stated goal is to ‘bolster Israel’s security and ...

Bishop Roberto Calara Mallari, 61, will succeed the late Bishop Enrique Macaraeg to become the fourth bishop of the ...

Pope Francis has said things that "distort Israel’s legitimate military campaign and fuel antisemitism and unjust targeting of the Jewish state," the umbrella Jewish group stated.

On the Vigil of the feast of St. Mary, Mother of God, Pope Francis said the hope of brotherly fraternity is not based on ...

Bishop Robert Brennan kicked off the Year of Jubilee 2025 on Dec. 29 with a morning mass at the Cathedral Basilica of St.

At the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Dec. 29 wasn’t too early for a certain kind of New Year’s celebration.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Offering his condolences, Pope Francis praised former U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s Christian faith and ...