Still, it's fairly unusual for a modern pope to reveal his thoughts so directly. Here are five new things we learn about ...

One of Francis’ lasting reforms will be his reshaping of the papacy to embrace simplicity and humility. In his new ...

"Each time a pope takes ill, the winds of a conclave always feel as if they are blowing," Francis writes in his new memoir, ...

Pope Francis has released his autobiography "Hope". The book shares anecdotes from his life alongside his thoughts on the ...

At the beginning of Pope Francis’s papacy his controversial predecessor handed him a large white box stuffed with ...

Growing up in a multicultural neighbourhood in the 1940s, the boy who would become Pope witnessed drugs, prostitutes... and ...

Pope Francis has named Indian Cardinal George J. Koovakad to be the new prefect of the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue.

it should be known that we would oppose any plan that includes a mass deportation of U.S. citizens born of undocumented parents.” In his message of good wishes today, Pope Francis appeared to ...

He's the first pope from Latin America, the first to take the name Francis and the first sitting pontiff to publish his memoirs since the 15th century. Pope Francis' autobiography, Hope, reaches ...

For a pope, who Catholic theology holds is ... of populism today to that of the 1930s and Hitler’s Germany. (Francis was born in 1936 and recalls his grandmother standing up to Mussolini ...