The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls. Many want to know how Pope Francis ...

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The nuns who operate the Vatican's switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls with questions like that as the pope ...

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NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of people in South Asia celebrated Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, on Friday by smearing each other with brightly colored powder, dancing to festive music and feasting on ...

Cuba completed this week the agreed-upon release of 553 prisoners. However, it did not report how many were linked to the ...

A month after being hospitalized, Pope Francis is showing significant improvement, moving as he did before his admission.

For much of the church’s history, the pope’s body was closely associated with the sanctity of his office, as the papal ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...

In a long post on X, the Ukrainian leader said that during the conversation with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, “I wished Pope Francis a speedy recovery and thanked him for his prayers and moral support for ...

The Catholic Church sees the work of entrepreneurs as a response to a vocational calling to co-create with God.

Pope Francis marked a month in hospital Friday, with football players sending him messages of support for his recovery from ...