World Jan 31 Pope’s Africa trip spotlights conflict, church’s future Aid groups are hoping Francis’ trip will shine a spotlight on two of the world’s forgotten conflicts and rekindle international attention on some of Africa’s worst humanitarian crises.
World Jan 25 Pope Francis says homosexuality is a sin but not a crime Pope Francis has criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as "unjust," saying God loves all his children just as they are.
World Jan 09 Pope meets with Benedict’s aide, who settles scores and criticizes Francis in new book Pope Francis met with Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, the longtime secretary of Pope Benedict XVI who raised eyebrows with an extraordinary memoir in which he settles old scores and reveals palace intrigue about the decade-long cohabitation of the two pontiffs.
World Jan 04 WATCH: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s funeral at St. Peter’s Basilica Pope Francis joined tens of thousands of faithful in bidding farewell to Benedict XVI.
World Jan 04 Pope Francis praises Benedict on final day of public viewing Pope Francis has praised Pope Emeritus’ Benedict XVI’s “acute and gentle thought” on the final day of public viewing of his body in St. Peter’s Basilica before his funeral.
World Jan 01 Benedict XVI’s death paves way for new protocols to guide future popes The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI passed in an entirely un-papal-like manner Saturday, with a two-sentence announcement from the Vatican press office. Will Pope Francis issue new protocols to regulate the office of a retired pope, after Benedict largely winged it on the…
World Dec 31 Benedict XVI, pope who resigned to spend final years in quiet, dies at 95 Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, the shy German theologian who tried to reawaken Christianity in a secularized Europe but will forever be remembered as the first pontiff in 600 years to resign from the job, died Saturday.
World Dec 29 Former Pope Benedict XVI lucid and stable but condition ‘serious’, Vatican says The Vatican says Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is lucid, conscious and stable, but his condition remains serious.
World Dec 19 Jesuits call for victims to come forward amid artist abuse scandal Pope Francis' Jesuit order is asking any victims to come forward with complaints against a famous Jesuit artist.
Nation Dec 19 Vatican defrocks anti-abortion priest for ‘blasphemous posts’ The Vatican has defrocked an anti-abortion U.S. priest, Frank Pavone, for what it says were "blasphemous communications on social media" as well as "persistent disobedience" of his bishop.