The pope, who turned 88 Dec. 17, mostly uses a wheelchair and presides over rather than concelebrates most public liturgies.

The pope inaugurated the Catholic Church's historic 2025 Jubilee of "Hope" at the Vatican on Christmas Eve in traditional ...

papal teachings and papal prayers of Pope Francis. Then, Register staff writer Peter Laffin walks us through the top events in the U.S. Church this past year.

Francis is the first pope from the Americas ... consulting medically and then morally as well. I think there is a general rule in these cases, but you have to go into each case in particular ...

Italian nun Sister Simona Brambilla will be responsible for every religious order, from Jesuit and Franciscan priests to the ...

For some years now, Francis’ health ... played the anthems, and then marched under his gaze. People in the crowd cheered: “Viva il papa” — “Long live the pope.” Elisabetta Povoledo ...

Pope Francis (center) being welcomed by then Iraqi President Barham Saleh in ... Erbil and Mosul along with the ruins of Ur, a now abandoned Sumerian city dating back to around 3,800 BC.

Pope Francis ... but now that I am old, children are often my mentors. The meetings with them are the ones that thrill me the most, that make me feel best. And then those meetings with old people ...

(RNS) — The pope’s appeal was made for the World Day of Peace, coinciding with the launch of the 2025 Jubilee year. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the year 2000, then-Pope John Paul II appealed to ...