Pope Francis

Pope Francis has created 10 new saints, rallying from knee pain that had forced him to use a wheelchair. Francis stood for a long period at the start of Sunday’s ceremony to greet priests concelebrating the Mass, and hobbled onto the altar. There, he proclaimed the six men and four women saints, including a Dutch priest-journalist who was killed by...

Pope Francis told an Italian newspaper he had offered to travel to Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin to try to end Russia’s war in Ukraine and suggested the invasion might have been provoked by NATO’s eastward expansion.

Pope Francis has made an Easter plea for peace in Ukraine and in other wars in the world

Pope Francis opened Holy Week  Sunday with a call for an Easter truce in Ukraine to make room for a negotiated peace, highlighting the need for leaders to “make some sacrifices for the good of the people.”

Pope Francis is praying for an end to the “sacrilegious” war in Ukraine and for the world to show compassion to refugees

Pope Francis says he is considering making a visit to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, and he has blasted Russia’s war in Ukraine as an “infantile and destructive aggression.”

Pope Francis has made a historic apology to Indigenous Peoples for the “deplorable” abuses suffered in Canada’s residential schools.

In a speech at the Vatican Thursday, the pope called out leaders who “continue to govern the world like a chessboard, where the powerful study the moves to extend dominance to the damage of the others.”

On Sunday, Pope Francis told thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square that every day brings more atrocities in what is a “senseless massacre”

Francis has spoken out about the “barbarity” of the war and especially the death and injury it has caused Ukrainian children

The Vatican has released the document laying out Pope Francis’ long-awaited reform of the Holy See bureaucracy

Pope Francis called for a cessation of violence, the establishment of humanitarian corridors and a return to negotiations.

Pope Francis is urging all sides in the Russia-Ukraine dispute to examine their consciences before God and pull back from threats of war.

Pope Francis said he was ‘pained and alarmed’ by the escalation on the border of Russia and Ukraine.

Pope Francis has a new first in his papacy — an appearance as a TV talk show guest

Pope Francis is urging parents not to condemn their children if they are gay

Pope Francis is vowing to provide justice to victims of clergy sexual abuse after an independent audit faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI for having botched four cases of abuse when he was archbishop of Munich, Germany

Pope Francis has long lamented that he can’t walk around town unnoticed like he used to before becoming pope

Pope Francis is now speaking about getting the coronavirus vaccination as a “moral obligation.”

“How many children in the world are waiting for someone to take care of them,” the pontiff said as he called for couples who can’t have children to be open to adoption.