Pope Francis has visited Rome’s main prison and kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least ...

A convalescing Pope Francis made a surprise in-person appearance when he greeted the crowd in St. Peter's Square on Palm Sunday, another reassuring sign of his recovery from a life-threatening ...

Pope Francis made another surprise visit to St Peter's Square at the end of the Palm Sunday Mass, one day after making an unannounced visit to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.

Pope Francis made a prayerful pilgrimage to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore on Saturday afternoon, continuing the pontiff’s gradual return to public appearances ahead of Holy Week celebrations.

VATICAN CITY, April 13 (Reuters) - Pope Francis made a brief appearance in St. Peter's Square on Sunday at the end of a Palm Sunday service, greeting the crowds from his wheelchair as he continues ...

He also briefly met Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla. The royal, 77, and her husband King Charles, 76, met Pope Francis during an unexpected visit to the capital of the Catholic Church ...

Pope Francis is the 266th Roman Pontiff of the Catholic Church. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, Argentina, he was elected by the conclave of cardinals on March 13 ...

Another of the pope’s sources, the Aparecida—the concluding document of the fifth Conference of Latin American Bishops, and a guiding document for Francis’s magisterium—includes the word ...