Pope Francis denounced the "appalling humanitarian catastrophe" in Sudan in Sunday's written Angelus prayer. It is the ...

In a moving homily read by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the pontiff described how suffering can become “a place of encounter” ...

The Vatican released the Holy Father’s message while the 88-year-old Pontiff continues his convalescence in his Casa Santa Marta home.

Lent gets its name from a word meaning "springtime," the time of year when the hours of daylight are lengthening and the sun ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Let us live this Lent as a time of healing, all the more as it is the Jubilee. I too am experiencing it this way, in my soul and in my body," said Pope Francis in the ...

Pope Francis, who is recovering from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia, urged Catholics Sunday to mark Lent as a “time of healing” as he missed his seventh consecutive Angelus prayer.

On the first Thursday of Lent, the pope’s presence was still not concrete, but his sentiments were not abstract. As the faithful thanked Pope Francis, he in turn thanked them via a recorded ...

Pope Francis waves from a balcony at Gemelli Hospital ... During his address, the Pope reflected on this Third Sunday of Lent’s Gospel reading about the barren fig tree, drawing parallels ...

(OSV News) -- The same day Pope Francis was discharged from Rome’s Gemelli hospital after a five-week stay for treatment for double pneumonia, a group of Vatican doctors took their Lenten alms ...

(This report was first published by INQUIRER.net on April 14, 2022, and is being reposted in time for Holy Week 2025.) MANILA, Philippines—Doing penance, described by Philippine Jesuits as an ...