Pope Francis

The pontiff was singled out by vandals who firebombed churches in the capital Santiago.

Pope Francis spoke out about a number of Trump's foreign policy decisions.

Speaking at an evening vespers service in St. Peter's Basilica, the Pope said humanity had "wasted and wounded" the past year "in many ways with works of death, with lies and injustices."

President Donald Trump may not be the most admired man in the world, according to a new poll, but he's right up there.

It happened just hours before Pope Francis was set to give his annual Christmas address.

Pope Francis had some words of warning about the Middle East in his annual Christmas Day address.

The pontiff blew out one birthday candle from a 13-foot-long pizza on Sunday morning.

"There is an urgent need for news communicated with serenity, precision, and completeness."

The pontiff and the president do not see eye to eye on a number of issues.

The luxury car will be auctioned to help Iraqi Christians devastated by jihadi group.

Workers at St. Peter's will no longer enjoy papal pulls of tobacco from next year.

"The priest says 'lift up your hearts.' He does not say, 'lift up your cell phones to take pictures.'"

The pontiff went straight in with the tough questions in his call to the orbital research center.

The pontiff has praised the power of technology to unite people in the past.

Exorcisms are often unspectacular, though unofficial exorcisms have sometimes had tragic consequences.

Pope Francis condemned the death penalty but could face an uphill battle in the GOP-controlled U.S. government where 72 percent of Republicans support the death penalty.

Francis had previously made conciliatory comments toward the LGBT community.

Francis of Assisi has been cited by some Christians, including the pope, as a precursor to modern-day ecologists.

A letter accusing Pope Francis of supporting heretical stances is the sixth initiative aimed at clarifying his positions on family and marriage, but he has remained silent.

The plaintiff claimed he was raped by a Christian Brother, who had previously abused children in other schools but was recommended for a teaching job by the archdiocese.

Bannon has slammed U.S. bishops for defending undocumented immigration, claiming the Catholic Chruch "needs illegal aliens to fill the churches."

The pontiff called on the president to reconsider repeal of the DACA program.

Pope Francis encourages Venezuela to open a new dialogue, but it remains to be seen whether the Maduro regime is willing to change the course of its country.

Francis is flying to Colombia on Wednesday, but he was rerouted to avoid the hurricane's path.

As a former club bouncer and chemical engineer, the pope's past is a frequent source of surprises.

Trump left Spicer, a Catholic, out of his meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican in May.

Muslim and Christian militias have been engaged in tit-for-tat violence since 2013, but the situation has escalated in recent months.

The Catholic Church regards what is said in confession as strictly confidential.

Christians are persecuted in North Korea, but top Catholic bishops are still calling for Washington and Pyongyang to sit down for negotiations.

Two close associates of Pope Francis recently criticized hardline Catholics for supporting the administration's "apocalyptic geopolitics."