President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, recognizing him as a recipient ...

President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis with a Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction during a phone call on ...

The appointment marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church.

Pope Francis has named the first woman to head a major Vatican office. He is appointing Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian ...

Pope Francis s pick as the archbishop of Washington, D C , has made headlines over the years with his views on abortion, LGBT ...

For just the third time since 1994, someone has earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction. The last person to ...

Today, in an excerpt from his new memoir Hope: An Autobiography (written with Carlo Musso) published in The New York Times, Pope Francis praised ... about and told by Jesuits are in a class ...

Pope Francis was born in 1936, and grew up in Buenos Aires, in the barrio of Flores, a simple neighbourhood. After spells working in a sock factory, Francis became a Jesuit novice in 1958. He was ...