Pope Francis

Survey shows Americans' low awareness of Pope's position on global warming.

£50m radar system to be sent to Falklands along with missile defences and battle management systems.

Warden Karen Bryant said they were honoured and excited to host the Pope at the Philadelphia Prison System.

Couples who divorce and those who remarry are not excommunicated says Pope

'Just as there is a multiplicity of creatures on Earth, there can be other beings… created by God'

Pope Francis says the secret to his energy levels is not 'drugs'.

A former Catholic archbishop has been admitted into hospital just hours before he was due to stand trial for sexually abusing boys.

Speaking in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Pope Francis calls for just economic order.

The pontiff arrived in Bolivia on the second part of his three-country tour of South America.

Digital moments are reshaping lives in Latin America and this week's papal visit shows.

Italy's anti-immigration Northern League leader Matteo Salvini attacks pontiff over refugees appeal.

Pontiff slams dependence on fossil fuels, calls for urgent action

Criminal trial of former Holy See envoy to the Dominican Republic to start in July.

Kremlin leader's legendary lateness strikes again on Italian trip.

Holy See already provides the homeless with showers and free barber service.

Colourful Corpus Christi processions around the world, from Latin America to Bavaria.

Kremlin strongman is to make an official trip to Italy days after G7 leaders meet without him.

Leaving Mediterranean migrants to die at sea is 'attack against life'.

Vatican bank gives the Catholic Church a multimillion euro cash boost.

Four new female saints are to be canonised at a ceremony in the Vatican by Pope Francis.

Holy See officially recognises Palestinian state ahead of canonisation of mother Marie Alphonsine and Mariam Baouardy.

Castro is in the Vatican to thank the Catholic pontiff for his role in boosting US-Cuba ties in "strictly private" talks.

Pontiff: 'Why is it taken for granted that women must earn less than men?'

Investigators believe St. Peter's Square throngs were target

Kurdish leaders acknowledge their people's role in the genocide - but Turkish leaders refuse to do likewise.

Critics accuse prelate of fostering 'division and intolerance'

Turkish authorities continue to heap scorn on Vatican pontiff over his Armenian genocide comments.

Mehmet Görmez, Turkey's head of religious affairs, says pontiff's comment on Armenian killings is baseless.

Pope Francis angers Turkey by using the term 'genocide' to describe the killing of 1.5m Armenians

Vatican's silence on French government's proposal of gay senior diplomat Laurent Stefanini as envoy interpreted as rejection.