NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump posted an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself dressed as pope as the mourning of Pope Francis continues and just days before the conclave to elect his successor is set to…
Pope Francis, an energetic reformer who inspired widespread devotion from Catholics but riled traditionalists, died on Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88. The Argentine pontiff, leader of the Catholic Church since March 2013, spent…
Vatican City, Holy See–Here are some key dates in the life of Pope Francis, the first Jesuit and Latin American pope, who died on Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88. – December 17, 1936: Jorge…
Vatican City, Holy See– Pope Francis died on Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88. READ: Pope Francis has died, Vatican says Here are some key quotes worth remembering from Pope Francis’s papacy: Humility “Pray for…
CEBU CITY, Philippines—Pope Francis announced the appointment of a Filipino bishop as the Holy See’s Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union. Archbishop Bernardito C. Auza, the titular Archbishop of Suacia, was currently the archbishop of Sweden and…
VATICAN CITY, Holy See — Pope Francis doubled down Sunday on his condemnation of Israel’s strikes on the Gaza Strip, denouncing their “cruelty” for the second time in as many days despite Israel accusing him of “double…
MANILA, Philippines — Cardinal Pablo “Ambo” Virgilio David was ready for the “call of martyrdom.” This was even before he received his red vestments as one of the “Princes of the Catholic Church.” “When I was named…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis met Monday with relatives of hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, marking the six-months since the attack in southern Israel with an hourlong audience. The Vatican released photos of the encounter,…
Vatican City, Holy See— Pope Francis opens the Synod of Bishops’ general assembly in Rome Wednesday, October 3, 2023, which, in a historic first, gives women a vote, after a vast global consultation on the future Catholic Church.…
Pope Francis, in a historic move that could lead to more inclusiveness in decision-making in the Roman Catholic Church, will allow women to vote for the first time at a global meeting of bishops in October. In…
The 86-year-old pontiff, who was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Wednesday with breathing difficulties, got out of the car transporting him and smiled and joked with the crowd. Asked by someone how he felt, he quipped…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis celebrated a low-key Christmas Eve Mass made somber by the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday and said people should feel obliged to help the needy because Jesus himself was born a poor outcast. The Mass…
