Pope Francis opens the Holy Year 2025, continues calls for peace, and addresses global challenges, emphasizing love, hope, ...

The claim stems from the celebration of the 2025 Jubilee, a Roman Catholic tradition that happens every 25 years.

Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church that is expected to draw some 32 million pilgrims to Rome in a test of the pope's stamina and ...

The pope, who turned 88 Dec. 17, mostly uses a wheelchair and presides over rather than concelebrates most public liturgies.

This encyclical leads us to the prayerful and transcendent dimensions of the Christian life, from which it flows ...

During his traditional Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia December 21, 2024, Pope Francis criticized what he sees as ...

In 2024, Pope Francis will open “five sacred portals” on Christmas Eve for a ritual that has never been performed before — ...

Looking back over the last 12 months on the Vatican beat, it’s tempting to call 2024 “tumultuous” — tempting, that is, but ...

Rewriting history that Jesus wasn’t a Jewish resident of the Jewish country of Judea but rather a Palestinian man who was ...

Pope Francis has cited the Gospel while calling ... These duties are outlined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the definitive document outlining the church's doctrines on theological ...

Speaking of imagining, a plan like Maui’s needs to capture people’s imagination in order to give them hope and keep them ...

Pope Francis meets political authorities ... into his home as being more eloquent than any words, declarations, or documents, as it embodied friendship and a shared sense of belonging to one ...