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 ...

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 ...

Pope Francis on Monday emphasized the ecumenical vocation shared by Christians during an audience held at the Vatican with Finnish representatives of various Christian denominations who have made ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROME — Pope Francis has called plans by President-elect Donald Trump for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants a “disgrace,” signaling the return of the rocky relationship that ...

Pope Francis had quite a busy weekend. In a rare TV interview, he slammed President-elect Donald Trump’s call for the mass deportation of immigrants in the U.S. as a “disgrace.” He also made ...

Eugenio Pacelli joined the Secretariat of State in February 1901. In 1911 he was appointed undersecretary of the First Section, Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, and on February 1, ...