Pope Francis travelled to Iraq in 2021, meeting a revered Shiite Muslim spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, and ...

"Regardless of their partisan leanings, most U.S. Catholics regard Francis as an agent of change," Pew added. "Overall, about ...

Kenyan President William Ruto posted on X that Francis "exemplified servant leadership through his humility, his unwavering ...

Javier Milei, a far-right libertarian who stridently defends free markets, acknowledged his and the pope's differing ...

The international community reacts to the death of Pope Francis, a global figure whose influence went beyond the Catholic ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a photo of himself shaking hands with Pope Francis and praised the pontiff as ...

Accepting a prestigious European prize in 2016, he sharply scolded the European Union for its treatment of migrants and ...

Francis did not preside over the Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square, instead delegating it to Italian Cardinal Angelo Comastri ...

Yet ties between Pope Francis and Moscow strained amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In May of 2022, the Pope publicly ...

Pope Francis's death sets an ancient machinery into motion. Soon, with a puff of smoke, the last absolute monarchy in Europe ...

Pope Francis was the first non-European head of the Roman Catholic Church in more than a millennium. Jorge Mario Bergoglio ...

The Holy See Press Office said the pair exchanged Easter greetings in a private meeting that lasted for a few minutes.