Pope Francis has tripped while entering the Vatican auditorium for an audience Saturday after the handle of his walking stick snapped, but he avoided falling.

The centuries-old St. Gregory the Great Parish Church in Majayjay, Laguna has been designated by Pope Francis as a minor basilica, according to Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) ...

A nun greets Pope Francis during his apostolic visit to Indonesia in September 2024. (Photo: Government of Indonesia/Wikimedia Commons) Could this be what “trickle-down” means? The scene takes ...

Pope Francis signing a document at Merdeka Palace ... Readers of his previous, less intimate autobiography, Life: My Story Through History (2024), will recognize some familiar figures—his ...

The Hebrew Bible, which Christians call the Old Testament, offers instructions about celebrating a Jubilee every 50 years.

The Christian misfits did not lead comfortable lives. For this reason, among others, they tended to make others uncomfortable ...

During his homily, Francis emphasized five key aspects of Christ’s mission that characterize the Gospel message.

Speaking at the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis marked the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and made urgent appeals ...

The written remarks also warned against what the pope termed “brain rot” caused by constant social media scrolling, calling ...

COMMENTARY: The newly retired Church leader’s greatest contribution was his work as the principal drafter/editor of the ...

Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II ...

When a 25-year-old government worker was asked in 2007 to allow spoiled rice from Rwanda to be transported across the border ...