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, calendars, bookmarks, medals and jewellery, among other things. Too ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered an underground tunnel beneath Rua Augusta in Lisbon, buried during the earthquake of 1755.

Pope Francis referred to the L.A. wildfires during his weekly general audience Wednesday and invoked Our Lady of Guadalupe, ...

Pope Francis has met with more than 100 comedians from across the world, including Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg, at the Vatican in Rome. The Pope said comedians have the "power to ...

With his new encyclical, Pope Francis added his voice to this chorus of encouragement inviting people not to lose heart.

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 ...

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