After that Christmas Eve ritual, Pope Francis will open a symbolic door inside ... On Sunday, Dec. 29, Pope Francis will open the Holy Door at Rome’s Basilica Saint John Lateran, of which ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 ... across the threshold as bells tolled across Rome and the choir inside the basilica began Christmas Eve Mass. In his homily, Francis ...

Pope Francis wrapped up a busy Christmas season on Monday by calling ... is expected to bring more than 30 million pilgrims to Rome over the next 12 months. The 88-year-old pope has a daunting ...

The pontiff addressed the topic of marriage’s indissolubility, or permanence, in a meeting with members of the Roman Rota, ...

In a Sunday television interview, Pope Francis emphasized that hope and forgiveness are at the root of the 2025 Jubilee.

Pope Francis greets media with surgeon Dr. Sergio Alfieri before leaving Rome's Gemelli Hospital shortly ... The pope is also sick with a cold right before Christmas. At Christmas Eve Mass in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the Christmas holiday period at the Vatican ...

He's the first pope from Latin ... Carlo Musso. But Francis decided to release the book sooner to coincide with the Catholic Church's Jubilee Year, which began on Christmas Eve.

Pope Francis has warned of the “scourge of anti-semitism” in his prayer on the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance ...

ROME — An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret 2013 conclave that elected him pope and the resistance he has encountered ever since ...

Francis spent much of the past decade in relatively good health but has dealt with several painful medical conditions over ...

Pope Francis' autobiography is being released Tuesday. In it, an introspective pope divulges some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret 2013 conclave that elected him pope and the resistance ...