ROME - The Vatican has issued a strong warning against "gender theory" and said that any gender-affirming surgery risks threatening "the unique dignity" of a person,...
HAITI - The Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince making an urgent appeal for the release of six nuns kidnapped in Haiti.
ROME - Pope Francis urged a universal ban on surrogate motherhood, condemning it as a "despicable" practice that exploits women and violates the dignity of both...
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis defended the decision to keep the discussions of a big Vatican meeting on the future of the Catholic Church behind closed...
ROME - Pope Francis has blasted the "Backwardness" of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic church, saying they have replaced faith with ideology and that a...
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican says Pope Francis has undergone abdominal surgery "without complications".
ROME - In a holy Thursday ritual symbolizing humility, Pope Francis washed and dried the feet of a dozen residents of a Rome juvenile prison.
AFRICA - Pope Francis denounced the "Poison of greed" driving conflicts in Africa as he began a visit to Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday.
THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Pope Francis landed in The Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, January 31, marking the first papal visit to the...
VATICAN CITY - Former Pope Benedict XVI is very ill according to Pope Francis, who is now asking pilgrims at the Vatican to pray for him.