Would-be assassins targeted the Pope during his visit to Iraq All of his advisers told him it was too dangerous to visit Iraq ...

Francis spent much of the past decade in relatively good health but has dealt with several painful medical conditions over ...

Speaking at the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis marked the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and made urgent appeals ...

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

Pope Francis is not expected to veto President Donald Trump's choice of a high-profile critic of his papacy as the next U.S.

Pope Francis has accepted an invitation to visit Ukraine in 2025, but a papal visit to the war ... A year later, on March 11, 2023, the pontiff told La Nacion that he was willing to travel to Ukraine ...

The faithful, he said in September 2023 ... and the Pope had met: They had an encounter during an ad limina visit of Kazakhstan’s bishops to the Vatican in 2019, and they met when Francis ...

Since the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis has appointed around 20 women to positions of responsibility in the ...

In early June, the Vatican postpones Pope Francis’ planned visit to the Democratic Republic ... Hospital shortly before 9 a.m. on June 16, 2023. Before returning to the Vatican, he stopped ...

A visit between ... said in 2023 that Francis had sown “confusion” by allowing priests to offer short blessings of people in same-sex couples. He also has criticized the pope’s removal ...