After the funeral of his predecessor, Benedict XVI, the pope asked that the protocols for papal funerals be revised to evoke ...

Mandarin Chinese is considered the world's most spoken language, with nearly one billion speakers, ahead of Spanish and ...

ANALYSIS: The revisions reflect Francis’ desire to simplify the rites and, in some instances, to dispense with centuries-old ...

"It disgusts me." The colloquial language of Pope Francis, often spontaneous and unfiltered, has once again been heard in the ...

Pope Francis denounces the hypocrisy of some countries “where there is much talk of peace” but “the highest yielding ...

After threatening to excommunicate two Peruvian laypeople suing a papal envoy, Pope Francis apparently met with the pair over ...

Shortly after the pope revealed that Spanish Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso, prefect for the Dicastery for Interreligious ...

Pope Francis has announced that his weekly General Audiences will include a greeting and summary in Mandarin Chinese as of December 4.During the Audience today, Pope Francis said: "Next week, with the ...

Led by the Substitute for the Secretariat of State, Archbishop Peña Parra, the delegation joined the millions of pilgrims who ...

Pope Francis will visit Ajaccio December 15, the Vatican confirmed November 23. The pope, who declined the invitation to attend the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, accepted an invitation ...

The 2025 Jubilee will bring tourists to the Vatican, Rome and Italy to celebrate the Catholic tradition of patrons asking for ...