He hit his chin on his bedside table and had a significant bruise on the right side of his face when he created 21 new cardinals on Dec. 7. For 12 days in early September, Pope Francis visited ...

As she works, she can see the very window from which Pope ... September Francis embarked on his longest-ever foreign trip, flying more than 30,000km to visit Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East ...

Political breakthroughs in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka with Yunus and Dissanayake, Han Kang the first Asian woman to win the ...

The pope, who turned 88 Dec. 17, mostly uses a wheelchair and presides over rather than concelebrates most public liturgies.

VANIMO, Papua New Guinea--Pope Francis traveled to the remote jungles of Papua New Guinea on Sunday to celebrate the Catholic Church on the peripheries, bringing with him medicine, musical ...

In Pope Francis' autobiography Hope he reiterates themes of his papacy like hatred of war and unchecked capitalism, and a ...

Pope Francis had a message for nuns, convey joy while refraining from gossip, he said as he addressed a gathering of nuns ...

“Many times in my life I have encountered nuns with a vinegar face, and this is not friendly," the pontiff recently remarked Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu via Getty Pope Francis made remarks about ...

“Vinegar is ugly, and nuns with a vinegar face, let’s not say! In short: holiness, preparation and friendliness. I ask this of you.” Related: Pope Francis, 87, Appears at Ceremony with ...

It is the only Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction he has awarded. President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis with a Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction during a phone call on ...