The announcement came after Pope Francis' meeting with Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, which Cardinal Miguel Ayuso has praised as an historic encounter. BAGHDAD: The announcement by Iraq's Prime ...

One highlight of Pope Francis' historic visit to Iraq is his meeting Saturday with a revered religious leader for Shiite Muslims, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Francis has spent years trying to ...

The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality was nothing like papal gatherings of cinematic lore, but it clearly reflects Francis’s view ...

Turning to the plight of Middle Eastern Christians, Pope Francis on Saturday prayed for their continued witness in a region ...

Pope Francis, your encyclical on the Sacred Heart, “Dilexit Nos,” is beautiful and heartwarming. And for Catholics in the United States, the timing was perfect.

This morning, after finishing a long speech at the Gregorian University for the opening of the academic year, Pope Francis, while in the historic center and on his way back, wanted to visit Emma ...

A Vatican official arranged the encounter in Sheba, where he met with civilians and soldiers injured in the ongoing conflict, ...

Sistani was born in Iran’s Mashhad in 1930. He has held the position of Iraq’s most senior Shiite authority since the 1990s and is respected by Muslims around the world. Hassan expressed ...

for not only does Francis benefit from learning more about LGBTQ Catholics, but the whole church benefits from the posture of welcome and listening that he demonstrates. Meeting the pope was a ...

Since establishing the World Day of the Poor in 2016, the Pope has held the annual tradition of welcoming Rome’s poor into ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The pediatric unit at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis got into the spooky spirit Thursday. Since children getting care can’t go trick or treating, the staff brought ...