In his newly released memoir, Hope, the story of the world that made Jorge Mario Bergoglio — and, by extension, the world ...

Trump's envoy pick Burch criticised pope's LGBTQ stance Vatican officials cautious about papal critics like Burch Pope not looking for diplomatic spat with US, source says VATICAN CITY ...

Sun-Times files Share In one of his last official acts, former President Joe Biden commuted the life sentence of Gangster Disciples co-chairman Gregory Shell, one of almost 2,500 “non-violent ...

When a pope dies, or more rarely resigns (Francis's direct predecessor, Benedict XVI, was the first to step down since Gregory XII in 1415), the college of cardinals gathers in the Vatican to ...

VATICAN CITY — Bishop Athanasius Schneider said Pope Francis “showed great cordiality” toward him during a private audience on Monday and that they “spoke about some important themes on ...

ROME — Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he weighed in on the US president’s pledges nearly a decade after ...

Trump took a similar hard line on immigration during his previous term in office ― and the pope was critical then as well. When asked about Trump’s promise to build a border wall in 2016, the pope ...

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This is not the way to solve things,” Francis said during the Sunday interview. The Pope has made advocacy for migrants a key part of his papacy, insisting they should be welcomed and integrated ...

Pope Francis sent “cordial greetings” and “assurance of my prayers” to Donald J. Trump on Jan. 20, the day of his inauguration as the 47th president of the United States. In the text ...

This is neither new nor necessarily bad. “Presidents who go down in the history books as ‘great’ are those who reach for power, who assert their authority to the limit,” the presidential ...