Pope Francis says “indiscriminately striking” civilians is a war crime because it violates international humanitarian law. Tackling conflicts in the Middle East...

Pope Francis has warned against inflexible ideological positions that can hinder the church from seeing reality and moving forward, speaking days after...

A two-and-a-half year corruption trial that exposed infighting and intrigue in the highest echelons of the Vatican is closing with the key...

Pope Francis has announced he will issue a new document on the protection of nature because a “terrible world war” against the...

Pope Francis has closed an international festival of Catholic youth with a huge outdoor Mass and his own “I have a dream”...

Pope Francis is doing well after his first night in hospital following abdominal surgery, the Vatican says. “The night went well,” the...

Pope Francis appeared to ask Russians to seek the truth about their country’s invasion of Ukraine in his Easter message to the...

Former Pope Benedict, the first pontiff in 600 years to resign and a standardbearer for conservatives who yearned for a more traditional...

Pope Francis has made an impassioned appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop “this spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine,...

Pope Francis, speaking as Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West he was not bluffing about possibly using nuclear weapons, has said...