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” ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s mass deportation of migrants, warning ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has received criticism from Pope Francis as the 47th U.S. president is set to unleash his mass deportation plan. The Holy Father weighed in on the anticipated operation ...

He went on to study sacred theology in Paris and in Regensburg, Germany, under the then-Father Joseph Ratzinger — the future Pope Benedict XVI. Schönborn was awarded a doctorate in sacred ...

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 ...

New York's top Catholic leader prayed for President Donald Trump on the national stage Monday before the swearing-in of the 47th president, but just a day earlier, Pope Francis had rebuked Trump ...