Pope Francis

Pope Francis on Wednesday quoted Italian actress Anna Magnani in slamming cosmetic surgery and the cult of eternal youth. Criticising those that "cultivate the myth of eternal youth as the desperate obsession for incorruptible flesh," Francis slammed "so much cosmetic...

In recent days it has been announced that Pope Francis is thinking of resigning, as did his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI did on 28 February 2013. The newspaper Libero reported on Aug. 23 that there was "a conclave in the...

Pope Francis said Monday that Russia's war on Ukraine was "absurd" and Kyiv's right to peace was "sacred." "All war marks a surrender regarding the human capacity to protect," Francis told an audience of civil protection workers. "It is a...

U2 frontman Bono and Pope Francis duetted on the 'superpower' wielded by women at a meeting with the students of Scholas Occurrentes at the Pontifical Urban University, also called the Urbaniana, in Rome on Thursday. "Girls' education is a superpower...

Pope Francis on Monday urged fraternal dialogue in politics, rather than hostile negotiations. "Politics is above all the art of meeting," Francis told the French ecumenical Chemin Neuf Community. "Certainly this meeting must be lived welcoming the other and accepting...

The Catholic Church does not refuse LGBT Catholics, Pope Francis said Monday. Answering three questions from Jesuit Father James Martin on LGBT Catholics and what he would say to one of them "who suffered a refusal by the Church", Francis...

The Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop of Brooklyn, will accept a relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis, the first millennial to be considered for Sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church, on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, at 1:00 p.m. in the Chapel at...

In his first speech as President-elect, Joe Biden greeted his victory with sobriety and a spirit of unity, with the same dignity with which in forty years of political life he has accepted his defeats, without becoming embittered. Listening to...

It's a really complicated issue, because in an intricate round of information and contradictions  we find the Pope, a cardinal and several million euros. That of Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu is a matter already known for a few months. In...