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Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images (PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea) — Pope Francis boarded an Australian Royal Air Force C-130 on Sunday and flew over the pristine jungles of Papua New Guinea, travelling to the faraway settlement of Vanimo as the 87-year-old continues reaching out to what he likes to call the “peripheries” of […]

Pope Francis is welcomed during his arrival at SoekarnoHatta International Airport in Jakarta on Sept. 3, 2024. (Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images) (JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Pope Francis on Monday embarked on his 45th and most ambitious trip of his papacy, both in terms of distance and duration. It’s a 12-day, four-country, two-continent odyssey; with stops […]

ABC News ROME and LONDON — Pope Francis on Sunday presided over an Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square and later used his Easter message on Christianity’s holiest day to invoke prayers for victims of war and to call for an end to ongoing conflicts. Francis delivered his Easter message and blessing — the […]

Pope Francis leaves after an audience to the participants of the live nativity scene of Santa Maria Maggiore, on December 16, 2023 at Paul-VI hall in The Vatican. ANDREAS SOLARO/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Pope Francis has formally signed off on allowing Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples — a radical change in Vatican policy. […]

Buena Vista Images/Getty Images (VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis announced Sunday he’s elevating 21 clergymen from around the world to become cardinals in a ceremony later this year. The pope made the announcement during his noontime Sunday prayer from St. Peter’s Square, saying the ceremony will be held on Sept. 30. In his decade-long tenure […]

Jackyenjoyphotography via Getty Images (ITALY) — Pope Francis left hospital on Saturday morning after spending three days recovering from bronchitis, according to the Vatican press office. The pope, standing on his feet, answered reporters’ questions outside Rome’ Gemelli hospital. He then embraced a crying woman and proceeded to bless her. Pope Francis also spoke to […]

Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ROME) — Pope Francis is expected to leave the hospital Saturday morning after spending three days recovering from bronchitis, according to the Vatican press office. “His Holiness’s return home to Santa Marta is expected for tomorrow, dependent on his latest medical test results carried out this morning,” director of the […]

Alessandra Benedetti – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (ROME) — Pope Francis has “progressively improved” after spending the night in the hospital with a respiratory infection, the Vatican Press Office said Thursday. The pontiff rested well during the night, Matteo Bruni, director of the Press Office of the Holy See, said in a statement issued in […]

Alessandra Benedetti – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (ROME) — Pope Francis has been diagnosed with a respiratory infection, according to the Vatican Press Office. He was taken to The Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, where he will be required to stay for several days to receive “appropriate medical treatment,” the press office said. “In recent days […]

Alessandra Benedetti – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (ROME) — Pope Francis on Thursday paid homage to his friend and retired predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, by presiding over his funeral mass at the Vatican, an unprecedented event in the modern Catholic Church. Benedict, who died on Saturday at the age of 95, stunned worshipers in […]