The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will appear in public on Sunday, for the first time in more than five weeks, offering a greeting and blessing from the window of his room at Rome’s Gemelli ...

Pope Francis will appear in public again on Sunday for a greeting and blessing to the faithful after the traditional Angelus ...

Discussions of succession scenarios have been accelerated by the pontiff’s bout with double pneumonia and warnings that he ...

Pope Francis became a voice for Africa. When he visited Kenya in 2015, he chose to visit the slums of Nairobi to proclaim the gospel of liberation to the forsaken of society. He called on African ...

Pope Francis greets waiting crowds during a visit to a refugee camp in Bangui, Central African Republic. What has he done to strengthen the Catholic church in Africa? Three things stand out.

The release of the photo by the Vatican was significant, as the Argentine pontiff has not been seen in public since being ...

In his first trip outside of Rome, Pope Francis visited the island of Lampedusa, where he met with migrants who fled from North Africa. Francis is also a vocal campaigner for the environment.

ROME — Doctors attending Pope Francis sought to reassure the world’s nearly 1.4 billion Catholics on Friday that “the pope is fine” and “working,” while at the same time warning that ...