Reflecting on his encounters with Pope Francis, Zubik said he was struck by "not just the dignity of the pope's office but ...

Pope Francis called on the world and 1.4 billion Catholics to confront climate change. He brought attention to the issue but ...

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their ...

Pope Francis wrote about his wishes and plans for his own funeral in his memoir Hope: The Autobiography, which was published in January 2025. He specified which church he wished to be buried in and ...

The comments come after reports that Trump is hoping to use tariff negotiations with other countries to isolate China.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli spent over four decades covering Rome. During her time, she covered the last three popes. But Poggioli ...

Kevin Farrell is the camerlengo, or acting head of the Vatican, until a new pope is elected. Here's what to know about ...

The Oscar-winning film is about the papal selection process. But how accurate is it to real life? Rev. Thomas Reese and ...

Trump praised the pope at the start of Francis's papacy, in 2013. But relations soured during the 2016 election, when Francis criticized Trump's proposal to build a wall on the U.S.-Canada border.

"Regardless of their partisan leanings, most U.S. Catholics regard Francis as an agent of change," Pew added. "Overall, about ...

Javier Milei, a far-right libertarian who stridently defends free markets, acknowledged his and the pope's differing ...

Yet ties between Pope Francis and Moscow strained amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In May of 2022, the Pope publicly ...