From a balcony, Francis greeted hundreds of people waiting outside the hospital where he had been treated for respiratory ...

Hallelujah gelato made its debut in Rome in open-air kiosks in Piazza Risorgimento Sunday just a 5-minute walk from the ...

He and a small number of other German Protestant leaders gathered, calling themselves the Confessing Church. They issued the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria currently lead the continent with 55 and 35 million, respectively as the number ...

The 88-year-old pontiff has been hospitalized for six weeks with pneumonia in both lungs. He will need to rest in the Vatican ...

We are happy to say that tomorrow he will be at home,” Dr. Sergio Alfieri, the head of the team taking care of the pontiff ...

Archbishop Bernardito Auza of Talibon, Bohol, the new apostolic nuncio to the European Union, is the Pope’s outgoing ...

Pope Francis plans to make his first public appearance since he was hospitalized more than a month ago on Sunday, greeting ...

During his first foreign trip in 2013, Pope Francis made headlines when he carried his own black leather briefcase as he ...

Globally, the number of priests per 259,000 Catholics reflects regional disparities. While the ratio is higher in Africa and ...

On World Down Syndrome Day, March 21, we remember Dr. Jérôme Lejeune, a Catholic doctor on his way to sainthood.