Sundays spent in nature and a return of year-round meatless Fridays were a few of the ideas floated Nov. 13 at the U.S.

ROME (AP) — A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives met Thursday with Pope Francis and ...

Environmentalists have called on the pope to halt the chopping down of a tree destined for St. Peter’s Square this Christmas, ...

Pope Francis gestures as he shakes hands with Yelena Troufanov, who was part of a delegation of Israelis who were freed after ...

The delegation was led by the Hostage Family Forum, the Foreign Ministry, Israeli embassies in Rome and the Vatican, the ...

Mary is a model of the kind of openness to the Holy Spirit that all Christians should have, an openness that allowed her to ...

Mary is a model of the kind of openness to the Holy Spirit that all Christians should have, an openness that allowed her to say "yes" to God's plan for the salvation of the world, Pope Francis said.

Pope Francis remembers nations suffering from war, especially in 'martyred' Ukraine, the Holy Land, and Myanmar. By Deborah ...

Mary is a model of the kind of openness to the Holy Spirit that all Christians should have, Pope Francis said.

Before concluding his Wednesday audience and imparting his paternal blessing for pilgrims, the Holy Father concluded his ...

The pope marked the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the image of Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompeii with ...

Pope Francis calls for rediscovering the Rosary's ability to evangelize the Church, in his letter commemorating 150 years ...