Tag: St. Peter’s Square

VATICAN CITY -- The role of the police and the military are to serve their country by promoting the common good, fighting injustice and...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has appealed for an end to violence in Sudan and a return to dialogue. "I invite everyone to pray for...

VATICAN CITY -- At the end of his general audience in St. Peter's Square March 8, International Women's Day, Pope Francis led a round...

VATICAN CITY -- Just days after Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua, was sentenced to 26 years in prison, Pope Francis expressed concern over...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI "spread and testified to" the Gospel his entire life, Pope Francis told tens of thousands of people gathered...

VATICAN CITY -- The day after Christmas the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, which emphasizes how the...

VATICAN CITY -- As part of the Vatican celebration of World Day of the Poor, a dozen doctors and nurses and 90 medical students...

VATICAN CITY-- The saints were not "starched," picture-perfect conformists, Pope Francis said; they were "countercultural and revolutionary." The multitude of men and women honored on...

VATICAN CITY-- Complaints without any desire to do anything about the situation are poison, Pope Francis said. Complaining can be "a poison to the soul,...

VATICAN CITY-- As thousands of people sat in the dark in St. Peter's Square, they watched fish jump from the facade of the basilica,...