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Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile Francis is a pope of many firsts: the first to use that name, the first from Latin America, the first from the Jesuit ...

Pope Francis apologized Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar and derogatory term about gay men to reaffirm the Catholic Church’s ban on gay priests. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni issued a ...

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Wednesday regretted that the lessons of WWII had not been learned, warning against the threat of a new widespread conflict ahead of the 80th anniversary of the D ...

By Claire Fahy Reporting from Vatican City As Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York waited for Pope Francis in Clementine Hall, an ornate room with marble walls and frescoed ceilings in the Vatican’s ...

Pope Francis apologized Tuesday after he was quoted using a vulgar term about gays to reaffirm the Catholic Church's ban on gay priests. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni issued a statement ...

Pope Francis has apologised over any offence caused after he was widely quoted as having used homophobic language at a meeting last week. The pontiff, 87, did not intend to use homophobic language ...

Pope Francis has suggested that his conservative critics in the United States have a “suicidal attitude,” in an interview with CBS News. Asked about criticism from “conservative bishops ...

May 16 (Reuters) - Pope Francis said his conservative critics within the Roman Catholic Church in the United States are trapped in a "suicidal attitude," according to an interview with CBS.

Gov. Kathy Hochul briefly met with Pope Francis Thursday in an audience with other elected officials attending a climate change conference hosted by the Vatican. Hochul, who is Catholic ...