CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV spent the last Sunday of his summer vacation with several dozen refugees, homeless ...

Pope Leo XIV plans to visit Lebanon this year on his first foreign trip, according to the country’s Catholic cardinal.

Pope Leo XIV will invite a select number of “flatmates” to move in with him when he occupies the papal apartments later this ...

Lebanon would be a highly symbolic stop for the first American pope, who has repeatedly called for peace in the Middle East.

ABC's Lana Zak recaps the final day of the pope's U.S. visit in Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA -- Pope Francis is back at the Vatican in Rome after a busy 10-day trip to Cuba and the United States.

ROME -- Pope Francis kicked off an unprecedented meeting on the Roman Catholic sexual abuse crisis Thursday by making clear what his expectations are from the global gathering. He called for ...

Pope Francis endorsed gay civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for a feature-length documentary that made its premiere at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday.

ROME -- Pope Francis suffered two new acute respiratory crises Monday and was put back on noninvasive mechanical ventilation, in another setback to his battle to fight pneumonia, the Vatican said.

Rome -- Pope Francis created 14 new cardinals Thursday at a ceremony at the Vatican. Francis said these new cardinals, who hail from 11 countries including Iraq, Poland, Pakistan, Portugal, Peru ...

ROME, Metropolitan City of Rome — Pope Francis has long lamented that he can't walk around town unnoticed like he used to before becoming pope. But he seems to have nevertheless kept his sense ...