Cuba thaw and inked a deal with China on bishop appointments. His calls for peace and to fight climate change were not always ...

During his 12-year pontificate, Francis took important, even historical, ecumenical initiatives. In 2016, he became the first ...

April 25 (UPI) -- Before scores of world leaders and Roman Catholic officials on Saturday, Pope Francis will be laid to rest ...

Even before dawn broke on Cuba’s iconic Plaza de La Revolución on Sunday, tens of thousands of the faithful had gathered to ...

The life of Pope Francis, the first Latin American and first Jesuit to serve as the Roman Catholic Church’s pontiff, lasted ...

HAVANA, Cuba – Pope Francis’ visit to the United States in September of 2015 was part of a larger trip to North America. He ...

VICTOR GAETAN is Senior International Correspondent for National Catholic Register and the author of God’s Diplomats: Pope ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Pope Francis regularly referred to Ukraine and its people as “martyred” and ...

On February 12, 2016, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill met in Havana, Cuba, - a moment nearly a 1,000 years in the making. This meeting was the first between a Pope and the Russian Orthodox ...

With all his soul, the pope wished to rescue the face of Russia's "mad holiness", that of its monks and pilgrims, its great artists and musicians, its writers capable of opening horizons of true ...

President Trump’s presence at the Vatican funeral marks a rare moment of reverence amid a complex relationship with the late ...

Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel attended a Thanksgiving Mass held in honor of Pope Francis at the Cathedral of Havana. The ...