Pope Francis said getting the coronavirus vaccine was "an act of love" Wednesday, as the head of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics joined a campaign to boost confidence in COVID-19 shots.

Pope Francis and former Pope Benedict have received the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, the Vatican said Thursday.. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said in a statement that he was “able to ...

Getting vaccinated against Covid-19 is “an act of love,” Pope Francis says in a public service ad that will start circulating online and on television on Wednesday. Working with the Ad Council ...

Pope Francis has said the coronavirus pandemic is one of “nature’s responses” to humans ignoring the current ecological crisis. In an email interview published Wednesday in The Tablet and ...

In his Christmas Day address, Pope Francis appealed to the nations of the world to share the new coronavirus vaccines with the most needy. "Today, in this time of darkness and uncertainty ...

Pope Francis defied Italy’s lockdown on Sunday afternoon, leaving his home in the Vatican to pray for those affected by the novel coronavirus at a famous crucifix that believers claim helped to ...

One year ago, on March 27, 2020, Pope Francis spoke these words in an empty St. Peter’s Square during a livestreamed, nighttime Urbi et Orbi blessing of the coronavirus-afflicted world.

The coronavirus as a metaphor. Ivereigh, who has written two biographies of Francis and enjoys a close relationship with him, suggested the book project during exchanges with the Pope in the ...

Rome — Pope Francis says he can relate to coronavirus patients who fear for their lives because of his own brush with death as a young man. The pope lost half of a lung to a pulmonary infection ...

Pope Francis Says Getting the COVID Vaccine Is an 'Act of Love' — for Yourself and Humanity "I pray to God that each one of us can make his or her own small gesture of love," Pope Francis says ...

Pope Francis defied Italy’s lockdown on Sunday afternoon, leaving his home in the Vatican to pray for those affected by the novel coronavirus at a famous crucifix that believers claim helped to ...