When a 25-year-old government worker was asked in 2007 to allow spoiled rice from Rwanda to be transported across the border ...

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

C onflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, was preparing to fly to Washington to ...

Pope Francis is taking the highly unusual decision to dissolve an influential Catholic group from Peru which has been plagued ...

Pope Francis has offered prayers for the people of Los Angeles as they endure deadly fires. Francis referred to the disaster ...

Franciscan Sister Raffaella Petrini will become head of the General Secretariat of the Government of the Vatican City State ...

Pope Francis put his money where his mouth is this week when it comes to his constant appeals for couples to procreate, ...

Pope Francis put his money where his mouth is this week when it comes to his constant appeals for couples to procreate, ...

He's the first pope from Latin America, the first to take the name Francis and the first sitting pontiff to publish his ...

One of Francis’ lasting reforms will be his reshaping of the papacy to embrace simplicity and humility. In his new ...

The Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian naval ship named after the 15th-century explorer that inspired the name “America,” has been ...

Vatican Diary. The health chronicles of popes are an old practice, revealing—at least in certain eras—the frail constitution ...