Pope Francis arrives to attend his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. It was Francis' first general audience since undergoing planned surgery to ...

The pope dedicated his talk at his weekly general audience to his trip last week to Canada, where he delivered a historic apology for the church's role in the government-sanctioned schools, which ...

The pope heard the shouting but it was not clear if he understood what the man was saying. After the man was taken away by Vatican police, the pope asked those in the audience hall to join him in ...

In 2001, he was appointed a cardinal by Pope John Paul II.'A poor church, for the poor'As leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Francis was seen as a progressive pontiff, far less concerned about ...

The pope arrived at the Gemelli Hospital on Tiber Island in a small white Fiat 500, leaving again under escort in the same car after a short visit. Earlier in the day, the 87-year-old pope was pushed ...

Meeting the new pope for the first time at the Vatican City’s modernist Paul VI Audience Hall became one of those events. Prior to Pope Leo XIV’s entrance on Monday morning, the crowd representing the ...

ROME - Pope Francis is back to his mask-less old ways a day after donning a face mask for the first time during a liturgical service. The about-face came despite surging coronavirus infections ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, who recently had the flu , was brought to a hospital in Rome for diagnostic testing after the papal audience Wednesday, the Vatican said, without giving further ...