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MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis has appointed a Filipino missionary priest as one of two new auxiliary bishops of the Archdiocese of Melbourne in Australia. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines news website said the Vatican…
ROME — Pope Francis paid his respects on Saturday to the “Garden of Angels,” an area in Rome’s third largest cemetery which houses the graves of stillborn and miscarried children. Francis celebrated All Souls’ Day Mass at…
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis left East Timor for Singapore on Wednesday for the last leg of a gruelling 12-day Asia-Pacific tour, flying from one of the world’s poorest regions to one of its richest.…
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea— Pope Francis opened up about the travails of his post with young worshippers in Papua New Guinea on Monday, telling them “this job is not easy”. The 87-year-old pontiff, who is halfway through…
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea — Over mountains, by air, and by sea, pilgrims have flocked to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea’s capital where Pope Francis landed late Friday on a landmark visit. The 87-year-old pontiff will…
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Pope Francis joined the grand imam of Southeast Asia’s largest mosque in pledging to work together to fight religiously inspired violence and protect the environment on Thursday, issuing a joint call for interfaith friendship…
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Pope Francis arrived in Muslim-majority Indonesia on Tuesday to kick of a four-nation tour of the Asia-Pacific that will be the longest and farthest of the 87-year-old’s papacy. The head of the world’s 1.3…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis urged Catholic priests to keep their homilies concise, recommending a maximum length of eight minutes to prevent their audiences from falling asleep. The homily or sermon is the address in which a…
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis gathered the Israeli and Palestinian ambassadors to the Vatican Gardens on Friday to pray for an end to the war in Gaza, marking the 10th anniversary of a similar encounter with the…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis used an offensive gay slang word during a meeting with Italian bishops, where he joked about the number of gay men in seminaries, media reports said Monday. During the private meeting one…
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis paved the way for the canonization of the first saint of the millennial generation on Thursday, attributing a second miracle to a 15-year-old Italian computer whiz who died of leukemia in 2006.…
MANILA, Philippines — A Filipino priest in the United States of America was appointed by Pope Francis as an auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Sacramento, California on Saturday. In the announcement of the Holy See, Father…
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