TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Pope Francis on Thursday, January 9, stepped up his recent criticism of Israel's military campaign in ...

He is appointing Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian nun, to become prefect of the Vatican department responsible for all the ...

Annone, a majestic 4-year-old albino elephant from India, five centuries ago was the pet of Pope Leo X. The white elephant ...

Pope Francis delivered his annual “state of the world” address on Thursday, asking ambassadors to pursue a “diplomacy of hope ...

Warning of “the increasingly concrete threat of a world war,” Pope Francis called for “the diplomacy of hope” in his address ...

Pope Francis expressed concern about "the increasingly concrete threat of a world war" at a New Year's reception for foreign ...

In what would have been his last overseas trip as president, Joe Biden had been set to depart for Italy Thursday night to ...

President Joe Biden has canceled a planned trip to Rome to meet with Pope Francis so that he can instead focus on federal ...

Children occupy a privileged place in God’s heart, and whoever harms them will be accountable to him,” the Pontiff said.

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

Pope Francis’s appointment of Cardinal Robert McElroy as the highly visible prelate of the church in Washington is already ...

The appointment marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church.