Pope Francis

Pope Francis will install the first cardinal of Brazil's Amazon region this month in a sign of his concern for the rainforest and its indigenous inhabitants, the man whom he picked for the role said.

Pope Francis met Bishop Antonij on Friday ahead of an expected summit next month with its Patriarch Kirill.

The leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics arrived the previous day in Edmonton for a six-day visit.

Pope to visit Canada on 'penitential pilgrimage'

When Pope Francis travels to Canada, indigenous leaders and residential school survivors say, they are hoping for more than an apology: They want action.

The Vatican, in an apparent attempt to boost the confidence of the faithful in how their charitable contributions to the pope are used, on Thursday issued the first detailed disclosure of his main fund.

Pope Francis has taken a new series of swipes at Russia for its actions in Ukraine, saying its troops were brutal, cruel and ferocious and that the invasion violated a country's right to self-determination.

Earlier this month in Malta, Francis implicitly criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin over the invasion

On Saturday evening Pope Francis will lead an Easter Vigil Mass in the basilica.

Some 150,000 Indian, Metis and Inuit children were enrolled from the late 1800s to the 1990s in 139 of the residential schools across Canada

Becciu has been charged with embezzlement and abuse of office over the purchase of the London property.

Following the operation, a statement from the Vatican said he has reacted well to the intervention.

The Vatican continues to defend marriage as being between a man and a woman, opposes gay adoptions, and sees "gender ideology" as a threat to traditional family values.

The new code specifies that a priest is to be stripped of his office and punished "with other just penalties"

The pope was driven in a golf cart around the historic Old City, largely razed during the grinding fight to dislodge the jihadists.

Pope Francis is an outspoken proponent of interfaith efforts and has visited several Muslim-majority countries including Bangladesh, Turkey, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.

Bruck, now 88, has been settled in Rome for many years and is now an Italian citizen.

A note sent to papal ambassadors late last week by the Secretariat of State -- hammered home that there had been no change in Church doctrine.

The virus has killed more than 37,000 people in Italy, but thousands have also turned out in recent days to protest curbs on social activities.

The Pope's favourable stance on civil unions marks a step away from a 2003 document prepared by the Vatican's dogma office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Most of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics were in forced confinement as the Pope spoke.

The epidemic has wreaked havoc on international business, tourism, sports events, and schools, with almost 300 mn students sent home worldwide.

Pope Francis apologised for slapping the hand of a woman who grabbed him on New Year's Eve.

Thirty-five civilians, including 31 women, and seven soldiers were killed Tuesday in simultaneous attacks which lasted for several hours.

Francis will at noon on Wednesday give the traditional Christmas Day mass -- his seventh -- addressed to the world in front of St Peter's Square.

Thousands of Palestinians and foreigners converged in Bethlehem, revered by Christians as the birthplace of Jesus, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

This will be the pope's third trip to Asia, taking him to two Buddhist-majority countries.

Former Irish president Mary McAleese has strongly criticized the Catholic Church over a lack of gender inclusion and LGBT rights.

A Vatican magazine has denounced how nuns are often treated like indentured servants in the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope Francis jokes that gossiping nuns are 'terrorists' during visit to the Church of the Nazarenas in Lima, Peru.