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

Thousands of baptisms performed by a priest in Phoenix, the Rev. Andres Arango, are invalid, because he used the wrong wording.

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

Lawyers for defendants in a big Vatican financial trial are asking the Holy See newspaper to correct the record after it ran a front-page editorial this week largely defending the investigation and insisting that the rights of the defense were being respected

President Joe Biden opened a five-day European trip Friday with a visit to Pope Francis at the Vatican.

President Joe Biden and Pope Francis’ upcoming meeting continues a long tradition of president-and-pope encounters, replete with notable moments involving gifts, gaffes and grieving.

Pope Francis has called for an end to the practice of returning migrants rescued at sea to Libya and other unsafe countries.

Pope Francis has celebrated grandparents and the elderly. It came on the Roman Catholic Church’s first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.

Pope Francis has made his first public appearance since surgery a week earlier

The Vatican says Pope Francis is in good condition, alert and breathing on his own after the pontiff underwent a three-hour operation that involved removing half of his colon

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A Vatican judge has indicted 10 people, including a cardinal, on charges including extortion, abuse of office and fraud in connection with the Secretariat of State’s 350 million-euro investment in a London real estate venture

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday. Blinken is the first high-level official of President Joe Biden’s administration to have a private meeting with the Pope.

Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority

Pope Francis denounced racism Sunday, the day the United Nations marks as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

GLAAD and other groups representing members of the LGBTQ community responded swiftly to the Vatican’s decree Monday that the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”

The Vatican has cleared a retired U.S. bishop of multiple allegations he sexually abused minors and teenagers, rejecting lay experts’ determination that a half-dozen claims were credible

Pope Francis has changed church law to explicitly allow women to do more things during Mass, granting them access to the altar, while reaffirming they cannot be priests