ROME — Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and ...

May this be the last wartime Christmas, Cardinal Krajewski prays in Kharkiv, as he celebrated Mass in Ukraine amidst Russia's ...

Pope Francis appealed for weapons to be laid down in global conflicts and for the reconciliation between enemies in a ...

He made the remarks a day after the start of the Roman Catholic Church’s Holy Year, known as a Jubilee, which takes place ...

The pope opened the Jubilee Holy Doors praying that the Holy Spirit would soften hearts so that "enemies may speak to each ...

When dictator Fulgencio Batista fled in the early hours of January 1, 1959, few imagined the sweeping changes ahead for the ...

At the start of the 2025 Holy Year celebration he dedicated to hope, Francis called for broad reconciliation “even (with) our ...

The Vatican rendered a Catholic monastery in North Texas "extinct" after one of its nuns reportedly broke her chastity vows. According to the Houston Chronicle, the judgment follows a year-long ...

Pope Francis opened the first of five Holy Doors, signifying spiritual portals, on Christmas Eve as part of ancient rituals ...

Nearly half a million households were left without power on Christmas Day in frigid weather after further missile attacks by ...

Pilgrims are lining up to walk through the great Holy Door at the entrance of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome as Christmas marks ...