The Mass also marked the Jubilee Year, launched on Christmas, with Francis noting that 'Mary is the door through which Christ ...

Reflecting on global conflicts, Francis expressed gratitude for those working toward dialogue and negotiations in war zones.

Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with an appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to protect and respect life from conception to natural death ...

ROME — Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with a renewed appeal for the faithful to ... Francis recalled the Jubilee’s ...

Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with an appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a "firm commitment" to ...

Pope Francis called for peace around the world and for global conflicts to ... a need for “gestures of dialogue and encounter, in order to achieve a just and lasting peace.” ...

A plenary indulgence is remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.

“They are a part of a journey, of a Christian journey together with the other Christian people all over the world ... Pope Francis wrote in the papal bull. “In order to offer prisoners ...

Pope Francis ... world full of hope and kindness” in a recorded message broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The head of the Catholic Church wished listeners “peace, fellowship and gratitude” in the ...

Pope Francis ... world full of hope and kindness” in a recorded message broadcast on BBC Radio 4. The head of the Catholic Church wished listeners “peace, fellowship and gratitude” in the ...