Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...

Reflecting on the visit of the Magi to the child Jesus, the pope encouraged Christians to follow in the footsteps of these ...

The Pope reached out, affectionately ran his fingers through my hair, then shook my hand, his handshake firm, hands warm. “Smile,” said the shutterbug who captured my father grinning, the Pope beaming ...

Read the address Father Michael Bruno, dean of seminarians at St. Joseph Seminary and College, delivered to attendees at the ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis has developed bilateral pneumonia, after new tests showed a further complication in the ...

Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was named president of the Vatican City State, the 44-hectare (108-acre) territory ...

Eleventh-hour negotiations by Qatar, Egypt and the US pulled the fragile truce back from the brink, allowing the release of ...

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila. Fought in the closing months of World War 2, the operation to ...