Pope Francis was quick to grasp the risks posed by climate change. But his tenure showed humanity’s limits in confronting the ...

He put “climate change firmly on the Catholic Church agenda,” he added. In 2022, Vatican City, which is also a country, became party to the UN’s international climate framework, which presides over ...

His call to address climate change grew more urgent in 2023 ... Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Irish-born 77-year-old president of the Vatican City State Supreme Court, will serve as head of the Catholic ...

The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

Phone signal in the Vatican will be cut, and signal jammers are in place to prevent any potential leaks during the secretive ...

The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and ...

Enea Silvio Piccolomini left a detailed memoir of his election as Pius II in 1458. In it he describes a process of ...

The body of Pope Francis was transferred to St. Peter's Basilica to lie in state for three days so the Catholic faithful and ...

All eyes are on Vatican City Tuesday with just over a day to go until the start of the papal conclave to elect the 267th pope ...

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