Vance, a Catholic convert, accused the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops of resettling “illegal immigrants.” ...

(Vatican Media via AP) This image released on Wednesday Jan. 8, 2025 by the Vatican Media shows Pope Francis meeting Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun who is the first woman named to head a ...

The encounter was one of a series of Saturday jubilee audiences of 2025, following a first meeting with pilgrims and a heart-to-heart with journalists.

The original Roman calendar divided the year from March to December into 10 months of either 29 or 31 days, based on lunar ...

Various videos claim Pope Francis's successor has been appointed, but that's not how a new bishop of Rome is chosen. How does the system actually work? View on euronews ...

When a pope dies, or more rarely resigns (Francis's direct predecessor, Benedict XVI, was the first to step down since Gregory XII in ... Chapel — hence the name "conclave", from the Latin ...

In an important move for the Catholic Church in Texas on Monday, Pope Francis named Austin Bishop Joe Vásquez to replace 75-year-old Cardinal Daniel DiNardo as head of the Archdiocese of ...

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 ...

Francis had been Pope for less than two years ... prompting Rome to hurry things up by locking them up and cutting their rations. Gregory X ruled this would become the rule and today the Sistine ...

Gregory Luigi Serangeli ... Ecclesia et Pontifice,” which is the highest honor given to the laity by the Pope for distinguished service to the church. He was also bestowed the Pere Marquette ...

POPE Francis greets Sister Simona Brambilla, superior general of the Consolata Missionary Sisters, on June 5, 2017, in Clementine Hall at the Vatican. ROME—Pope Francis on January 6 named the ...

Pope Francis was named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction Saturday by President Biden, a White House press release said. The honor is the highest civilian award in ...