Pope Francis

Pope Francis blasts US Catholics for ‘reactionary’ views

Jeremiah Poff · August 28, 2023 5:37 pm

Pope Francis arrives to meet thousands of World Youth Day volunteers at Passeio Maritimo in Alges, just outside Lisbon, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023.

Pope Francis reiterates prohibition on women priests and same-sex weddings

Jeremiah Poff · August 7, 2023 6:59 pm

Faithful watch Pope Francis deliver the Angelus prayer on a giant screen, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 8, 2020. Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced a sweeping coronavirus quarantine early Sunday, restricting the movements of about a quarter of the country's population in a bid to limit contagions at the epicenter of Europe's outbreak.

Pope Francis declares ‘God loves us as we are’ while speaking with transgender person

Luke Gentile · July 25, 2023 9:15 pm

New Vatican official says his handling of abuse allegations against priest in his diocese was ‘insufficient’

Jeremiah Poff · July 10, 2023 7:46 pm

Pope Francis released from hospital but will limit public appearances after surgery

Jeremiah Poff · June 16, 2023 5:07 pm

Pope Francis hernia surgery went well ‘without complications,’ Vatican says

Jeremiah Poff · June 7, 2023 3:58 pm

Pope Francis walks after posing for photographs with members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See, inside the Sistine Chapel inside the Sistine Chapel, at the Vatican, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019.

Pope Francis taken to hospital to undergo intestinal surgery

Conrad Hoyt · June 7, 2023 9:13 am

Director Martin Scorsese poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'Killers of the Flower Moon' at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 21, 2023.

Martin Scorsese accepts Pope Francis’s challenge and announces new Jesus film

Luke Gentile · May 30, 2023 3:29 pm

Illness forces Pope Francis to cancel meetings weeks after hospitalization

Jeremiah Poff · May 26, 2023 4:40 pm

Passengers wait at the platform inside a railway station on Feb. 27, 2022, in Lviv, Ukraine. The city has been a refuge since the war began nearly a month ago, the last outpost before Poland and host to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians streaming through or staying on.

Zelenskyy meets Pope Francis at Vatican and seeks backing for Ukraine’s peace plan

Associated Press · May 13, 2023 9:13 pm

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 26, 2023.

Pope Francis permits nonclergy, including women, to vote at bishops’ meeting

Jeremiah Poff · April 26, 2023 5:47 pm

Defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick faces new sexual assault charges

Jeremiah Poff · April 17, 2023 8:45 pm