Pope Francis

Pope Francis is bringing his message of dialogue with the Muslim world to the kingdom of Bahrain...Read More

Updated 1 month ago · Published on 1 Nov 2022 7:00PM · Pope Francis is set to meet Bahrain's grand imam Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb at Sakhir Palace on Friday. – EPA pic, November 1, 2022. POPE Francis will become the first pontiff in history to visit Bahrain, in a trip…

Pope Francis, who has often said people should limit their use of cellphones and give preference to personal communication, granted a private audience on Monday to Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook. Cook, head of the $2.4 trillion company whose iPhone has revolutionised personal communication, was on the pope's daily audience…

VATICAN CITY, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Pope Francis, who has often said people should limit their use of cellphones and give preference to personal communication, granted a private audience on Monday to Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook. Cook, head of the $2.4 trillion company whose iPhone has revolutionised personal communication,…

Pope Francis. Franco Origlia, Getty Images Pope Francis urged President Vladimir Putin to think of his own people in the event of an escalation.He said he was haunted by "rivers of blood and tears that have been spilled in these months". Francis also called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to be…

Pope Francis for the first time directly begged Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop the “spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine, saying on Sunday the crisis was risking a nuclear escalation with uncontrollable global consequences. In an address dedicated to Ukraine and made to thousands of people in St…

Updated 1 week ago · Published on 2 Oct 2022 10:10PM · Pope Francis has implored Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘to stop the spiral of violence and death’ and on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ‘to be open to serious proposals for peace’. – EPA pic, October 2, 2022. POPE Francis…

Topline Pope Francis made his first personal appeal for Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the "spiral of violence and death" in Ukraine on Sunday, days after Putin announced Russia would illegally annex four occupied regions of Ukraine. Pope Francis waves from the window of the Apostolic Palace during the…

Culture In Amoris laetitia, Francis said “there are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God’s plan for marriage and family.” In an interview with German Catholic media earlier today, Bishop Johan Bonnay of Antwerp said "communion with the…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Catholics in the United States are deeply divided over issues as disparate as LGBTQ inclusion, clerical sexual abuse and celebrating the liturgy, according to a summary of consultations carried out in dioceses across the country in recent months as part of Pope Francis’ Synod on Synodality.…