C onflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s ...

SCIAF – the official aid agency of the Catholic Church in Scotland – has been congratulated on 60 years of service to the world’s poor by Pope Francis. Pope Francis sent a Papal blessing all the way ...

Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor, to Pope Francis on Saturday. The medal was scheduled to be presented to the ...

Constantly in the public eye, Pope Francis is instantly recognisable across the globe, and his likeness adorns t-shirts, mugs ...

The pope’s comments provided the latest indication of a potential rekindling of frictions between the Vatican and the next ...

ROME — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prayed would be ...

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favorite pastimes was to rummage through his mother’s ...

ROME (Reuters) - Rome's chief Jewish rabbi on Thursday sharply criticised Pope Francis over the pontiff's recent ramping up ...

More than 3,000 Italians participated in the survey carried out in January, expressing their opinion on the challenges facing ...

The rabbi accused Pope Francis of fueling anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish sentiments by focusing on the suffering of ...

Pope Francis has warned of the “scourge of anti-semitism” in his prayer on the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance ...