Pope Francis remained hospitalized on Wednesday, his 13th day on the 10th floor of the Agostino Gemelli Hospital in Rome, according to the Holy See Press Office.

Pope Francis has fallen and hurt his right arm.

Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with an appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to protect and respect life from conception to natural death.

Pope Francis has revised the funeral rites that will be used when he dies.

Pope Francis will make late teen Carlo Acutis the Catholic Church’s first millennial and digital saint next year.

Pope Francis has named 21 new cardinals.

Despite their rocky start, Argentine President Javier Milei and Pope Francis appear to have hit it off.

Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican to reopen the case of a well-known priest-artist accused of sexually, psychologically and spiritually abusing adult women.

The pope has accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop whose diocese has been rocked for weeks by reports of a sex party in a priest’s apartment involving a male prostitute.

Clergy sexual abuse survivors have unveiled a proposed new church law calling for the permanent removal of abusive priests and superiors who covered for them.

The Jesuits say a famous artist priest has been definitively expelled from the religious order for sexually, spiritually and psychologically abusing women.

The Vatican says a key charitable fund, Peter's Pence, doubled its income in the last year to 107 million euros.

Pope Francis' surgery to repair a hernia in his abdominal wall has raised a question about what happens to papal power when Francis is unconscious or unable to lead the church.

German police raided 15 properties linked to the Last Generation climate activist group Wednesday, seizing assets as part of an investigation into its finances.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, saying later he sought the pontiff's support for Ukraine's peace plan.

Pope Francis is seeking to encourage his embattled child protection advisory board following weeks of turmoil and a shock resignation.

Ukraine's prime minister says he has asked Pope Francis to help facilitate the return of Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia.

Nicaragua ’s government says it has proposed suspending relations with the Vatican days after Pope Francis compared President Daniel Ortega’s administration to a communist or Nazi dictatorship amid a crackdown on the Catholic Church in the country.

Pope Francis has met with Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, the longtime secretary of Pope Benedict XVI.

Pope Francis has revealed that shortly after being elected pontiff in 2013 he wrote a resignation letter in case medical problems impede him from carrying out his duties.

The Vatican has defended Pope Francis from allegations he hasn't come down hard enough on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, saying the pontiff clearly views the war launched by Moscow as “repugnant.”.

Pope Francis has wrapped up two days of closed-door meetings with about 180 cardinals including the newest ones.

One of the oldest Catholic dioceses in the United States has announced a settlement agreement to resolve a bankruptcy case in New Mexico that resulted from a clergy sex abuse scandal.

Pope Francis has created 10 new saints, rallying from knee pain that had forced him to use a wheelchair.

A Lebanese Cabinet minister says Pope Francis may postpone a planned visit to Lebanon next month due to health reasons.

Pope Francis has harsh words for those who hew to old-school versions of liturgy, like the Latin Mass, saying they are sowing divisions among Catholics.

Pope Francis whose mobility has been limited of late by a nagging knee problem, is looking forward to visiting South Sudan in July.

A close associate of Pope Francis is defending the Vatican's decision to have a Russian woman and a Ukrainian woman carry the cross together during a Good Friday procession in Rome.

A Miami priest is seeking forgiveness from God and his parishioners after he learned in late December that he fathered a child, a spokeswoman from the Archdiocese of Miami confirmed on Tuesday.