Liberal incumbent pope asks God to comfort and support retired conservative pope until ‘the end’ Pope Francis has said his retired predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, is “very sick ...

Pope Francis invited Christians on Wednesday to pray for the grace to have a “pastoral heart” like Jesus that “suffers and takes risks” out of love for others. At his weekly public ...

We do not have to be perfect already to live in a way that gives witness to Christ and attracts others to him, Pope Francis said on Wednesday. At his weekly public audience on Jan. 11, Francis ...

The late Pope Benedict XVI's closest aide has revealed years of tension between the German theologian and his successor Pope Francis in an explosive memoir. Georg Gaenswein, Benedict's personal ...

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Pope Francis came out onto St. Peter’s Square this morning being pushed in a wheelchair for the funeral of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI. The 86-year-old pontiff stood several times as he ...

with Pope Francis presiding over the event and honoring his predecessor’s courage. Thousands watched and mourned and bells tolled as pallbearers carried Benedict's cypress coffin from St. Peter ...

Below is the text of Pope Francis’ weekly Wednesday audience, delivered on Jan. 18, 2023. To receive these remarks and more in your inbox every week, sign up for America’s daily newsletter.

“Based on what we’ve seen in the first half of January, my impression is that this resistance to Pope Francis is only going to escalate,” said Mike Lewis, a founder of Where Peter ...

Pope Francis is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City since 2013. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina in 1936, he is the first Jesuit pope and the first from the Americas.

Cardinal George Pell, a one-time financial adviser to Pope Francis, died Tuesday in Rome at the age of 81. Pell suffered fatal heart complications after undergoing hip surgery, according to ...

In his address, he quoted Benedict XVI: “The Church … grows by ‘attraction.’” Pope Francis stops to pray before an image of Our Lady and the Child Jesus during his weekly general ...