Not so Pope Francis this week. It was not a spokesman, but the Pope himself, and his letter was drafted in the form customary ...

Making the effort to use his own voice at the end of the audience, the pope earnestly pleaded with Catholics to “do our best” ...

"What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly," Francis wrote.

ROME (AP) — Richard Williamson, an ultra-traditionalist Catholic bishop whose denial of the Holocaust created a scandal in 2009 when Pope Benedict XVI rehabilitated him and other members of his ...

President Obama’s characteristic ambivalence about ... The first two pieces can be read here and here. How exactly does Pope Benedict… EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second of a three-part ...

Benedict Cumberbatch has said that he finds being described as a celebrity “derogatory”. The Academy Award-nominated actor, 48, said the term “just lumps anyone famous together” without ...

"It gave me a sense of time, but not necessarily a good one," said the 'Thing with Feathers' actor of the experience Emma McIntyre/Getty Benedict Cumberbatch is recounting a harrowing experience ...

Doctor Strange is going on hiatus in the next Marvel sequel, “Avengers: Doomsday,” according to a spoiler-happy, secret-spilling Benedict Cumberbatch. “Is that a spoiler?” the actor asked ...

given his criticism of the pope. "People in the Vatican, they read the news," said Ken Hackett, who served as President Barack Obama's ambassador from 2013-2017. "They don't like getting dissed or ...