The US vice-president will meet Italy's prime minister but an audience at the Vatican could also happen, the BBC learns.

A Catholic herself and standard-bearer of Europe's populist right ... the prospect of large-scale deportation plans, arrests in places of worship and efforts to curb birthright citizenship ...

As the Catholic Church charts its third millennium, the synod symbolizes its attempts to discern the path ahead. Francis sought balance between tradition and innovation, the local and the universal.

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

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

Francis, the 266th pope, oversaw a rise in the global population of Catholics and diversification of the College of Cardinals ...

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

Several U.S. dioceses reported 30%, 40%, 50%, and even more than 70% more adult converts who entered the Catholic Church this Easter. The famous Jewish actor and humorist Gad Elmaleh announced his ...

The death of Pope Francis on Monday sets in motion centuries-old traditions which will culminate in the election by cardinals ...