Francis was elected on March 13, 2013 as the 266th pontiff — and the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pope.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has marked the 12th anniversary of his pontificate in the hospital as he received increasingly ...

Massimo Faggioli's new book asks the question: "What is [theology’s] intrinsic value if it is not rooted somehow to the ...

On the occasion of the 12th anniversary of his election to the papacy, Pope Francis received hundreds of drawings, messages, ...

As he enters his 13th year as pope, Francis stands tall as the moral authority in today’s world, a voice pleading for ...

Claims against the famous artist have brought attention to the widespread sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse of ...

Four weeks after the Pope went into hospital there's a growing sense that the Papacy may have entered a new phase.

"He's the church's spiritual director, leading us on a kind of a retreat, a journey of conversion," Austen Ivereigh concluded.

Ex-Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik has been accused of abusing adult women who were under his spiritual care as part of a ...

The Vatican has released a health update on Pope Francis 12 years after he was first elected to lead the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope Francis marked 12 years as head of the Catholic Church on Thursday, seemingly out of danger after a month in hospital ...

March 13, 2025, marks Francis' 12th anniversary as pope. He holds the ninth longest papacy of the past 200 years.