Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

ROME -- Women around the world are participating in the process of the Synod of Bishops, but many of them fear that, despite promises,...

ROME -- An hour before sunrise, Pope Francis set a basket of white roses at the base of a statue of the Immaculate Conception...

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO ROME -- Pope Francis told reporters he accepted the resignation of Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris because the archbishop's...

ATHENS, Greece -- Like St. John Paul II before him, Pope Francis apologized to members of the Orthodox Church of Greece for the ways...

NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Pope Francis told migrants that, like them, God dreams of a world where everyone recognizes each other as brothers and sisters. God...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis asked visitors in St. Peter's Square to join him for a moment of silent prayer for migrants, especially those...

VATICAN CITY — Despite the disappointing outcome of the COP26 summit on climate change, Pope Francis said he knows it is not too late...

ASSISI, Italy -- With a pilgrim's staff and mantle, Pope Francis entered Assisi's Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels with 500 economically or...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has appointed Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian member of the U.S.-based Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist, to be secretary-general...

VATICAN CITY -- If Pope Francis called President Joe Biden a "good Catholic," as Biden told reporters, a ceramic tile the pope gave Biden...