ROME — Pope Francis has long urged couples ... new rule violates basic human rights as well as the Vatican’s fundamental laws and the church’s canon law, which in the Vatican take legal ...

Yet a series of events has unfolded behind the Leonine Walls ... ideal church leader. Pope Francis arrives to celebrate the Jubilee audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican on January 11.

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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has long urged couples ... rule violates basic human rights as well as the Vatican’s fundamental laws and the church’s canon law, which in the Vatican take legal ...

But, first, what makes Francis so different from previous ... in the Church of recent times. open image in gallery Pope Francis, then archbishop of Buenos Aires, pictured in Vatican City (AFP ...

Exactly two weeks before Donald Trump began his second term as president, Pope Francis appointed one of the Catholic Church ... the previous pontiff. For their part, U.S. Catholics seem to be a mixed ...

“Luckily a select few were allowed to go inside the Vatican ... walls.” Adapted by Peter Straughan from Robert Harris’s novel of the same name, the story unfolds in the immediate aftermath ...

On a recent Tuesday morning, in a dim underground parking garage in west Los Angeles, President Joe Biden sat idly in his car, seemingly paralyzed by events. Biden had flown across the country to ...

Pope Francis ... impasse, a Vatican commission was appointed. It concluded its work in 2014. The Vatican would never approve an alleged apparition whose message contradicted church teachings ...

It was built as a Christian church by ... adorn the walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which was built between 1473 and 1481, during the reign of its namesake, Pope Sixtus IV.

In Pope Francis’ long-awaited apostolic exhortation — “Amoris Laetitia,” or “The Joy of Love” — he urges church leaders to serve as nurturing pastors, not as rigid enforcers of doctrine. View the Full ...

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