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

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

Francis celebrated a New Year’s Day Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday that was dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus ...

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 the protection of life at New Year’s Day Mass on Wednesday, offering a seemingly anti-abortion ...

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

Presidential elections, international environmental conferences, and weather-related disasters are just a few of the major ...

Pope Francis appealed for weapons to be laid down in global conflicts and for the reconciliation between enemies in a ...

Iraq is known to have deployed thousands of additional security personnel to protect Francis. The Vatican did not immediately respond to a request for further details about the pope's new comments.

Pope Francis made history on ... ongoing public debate about assisted dying. Francis's defenders highlight that the pontiff, concerned with the world's marginalised people, largely shuns capital ...

Pope visits French island of Corsica ... problems in what he calls the "peripheries" of the world. In the course of his 11-year papacy Francis has still not visited most of the capitals of ...