ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he ...

Pope Francis has hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prays will be undertaken ...

By contrast, there is “GCAP silence” in Japan, says one local observer of business ties between Japan and the West.

The long-closed, 1920s-era observatory in Lake Angelus is important to astronomy buffs. But its private ownership has ...

Francis is also in a unique position, in that he follows two popes who had a more conservative view of what Vatican II represented. In Catholic theological terms, St. Pope John Paul II and Benedict ...

The order establishes a government-wide acknowledgement of the reality of biological sex, that there are only two sexes, male ...

"Each time a pope takes ill, the winds of a conclave always feel as if they are blowing," Francis writes in his new memoir, ...

I am praying for all of you,” Pope Francis said, using his televised Sunday Angelus address to speak directly to the people ...

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window ... the spelling of Cupich's first name. Associated Press religion coverage receives support through ...

Francis spent much of the past decade in relatively good health but has dealt with several painful medical conditions over ...

Pope Francis has thanked all mediators involved in the Israel–Hamas ceasefire agreement that has come into effect in war-torn ...

Parolin met with the papal representatives of Bahrain, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, ...