Pope Francis has convened a high-level summit to demand that children be protected from war, forced labor, trafficking and ...

Speaking to Catholic pilgrims from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland on Feb. 3, the pope shared a special message ...

Pope Francis has long urged couples to marry and have babies rather than dogs. He also has long championed the rights of ...

Caught between his progressive inner circle and an influx of conservatism, the Holy Father should 'brace' himself for a ...

In an opening address, the pope, lamented that throughout the world, children’s rights “are daily trampled upon and ignored.” ...

A traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him has ...

A young Italian couple is going to court in the Vatican tribunal to challenge a new ban on workplace marriages imposed by the Vatican bank ...

Annone, a majestic 4-year-old albino elephant from India, five centuries ago was the pet of Pope Leo X. The white pachyderm amazed Rome. Pope Francis watches as performers put on a show at his ...

The sacred performance signals a deepening of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue and a potential step toward a papal visit to Serbia.

With the publication of this autobiography, Pope Francis cements his monumental project of demystifying the papacy.

The summit includes panels on the child’s right to resources, to education, to food and health care, to family, to free time, ...

The chief rabbi of Rome said Christian-Jewish dialogue has been a victim of the war unleashed with the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023. "The moment we are living in is one in which it seems ...