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VATICAN CITY—The Vatican asked the Chinese regime on June 28 to stop intimidating Catholic clergy who want to remain unequivocally loyal to the pope and refuse to sign ambiguous official ...

VATICAN CITY—The former Vatican ambassador who accused three popes and their advisers of covering up for a disgraced ...

VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis has ordered an investigation of an American bishop accused of sexual misconduct with adults and ...

DUBLIN—Pope Francis arrives Aug. 25 in Ireland, ground zero of the Catholic Church's sex abuse crisis, with the ...

DUBLIN—The Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, withdrew on Aug. 18 from next week's World Meeting of Families ...

ROME—Pope Francis said his brief encounter Saturday with U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was a sign of good ...

MORIA, Greece—Pope Francis made a gesture Saturday of welcoming refugees by bringing 12 Syrian Muslims to Italy aboard his charter ...

Pope Francis has jumped into the fray of the 2016 elections, suggesting that GOP front-runner Donald Trump is ...

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump blasted Pope Francis as "disgraceful" after he said that Trump was not a ...

An overeager crowd in Mexico was chastised by Pope Francis after they pulled him by the sleeves, dragging ...

In a moment weaving strands of politics, religion and emotion, Pope Francis and President Barack Obama are set ...

  "Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of ...

ISIS is posing a very real and tangible threat to Pope Francis, a Vatican security official has said.

VATICAN CITY—Four leading French imams and the Vatican issued a joint declaration Thursday denouncing the Paris newspaper massacre and ...

VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis says he wants a missionary church with a modern spirit that gives hope to the ...

Jorge Bergoglio, the archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is now Pope Francis—the first pope to take the name ...

The first pope from South America, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, has been announced.