1775: Angelo Braschi is chosen as Pope Pius VI. 1804: New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery. 1852: Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children in London admits its first patient ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened and was receiving drug therapy for a ...

The 88-year-old pope was hospitalized in the late morning on Feb. 14 following meetings with a number of people, including ...

Pope Francis has faced numerous health challenges in recent years, and yet still has maintained a busy schedule of meetings, Masses, and travel since 2020.

What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who ...

The pope has closely followed the response of U.S. prelates to the president's attacks on migrants and he expects them to ...

Pope Francis addressed the bishops of the United States on Tuesday about the mass deportation of unauthorised immigrants, ...

Pope Francis addressed the bishops of the United States Feb. 11 about the country’s ongoing mass deportation of unauthorized ...

Francis emphasized that immigration laws and policies should be subordinated to the dignified treatment of people, especially ...

In his newly released memoir, Hope, the story of the world that made Jorge Mario Bergoglio — and, by extension, the world ...