VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern ...

The first to visit Iraq, meeting its top Shiite Muslim cleric ... that anyone building a wall to keep migrants out “is not a Christian.” LGBTQ+ stance Early in his papacy, Francis signaled ...

VATICAN CITY — Three days after white smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in March 2013, the former archbishop of Buenos Aires greeted the international press inside a ...

This trip sought to offer hope to Iraq's minority Christian community ... Referendums on marriage equality and abortion had just passed. Ahead of the visit, the Pope wrote a 2,000-word letter ...

His papacy also reflected a first in terms of his willingness to hear out different points of view on controversial issues including marriage ... be the largest act of Christian public worship ...

Church teaching holds that, without a church-issued annulment declaring the initial marriage invalid ... to visit both the Arabian Peninsula and Iraq, the birthplace of Abraham, a prophet ...