Pope Francis emphasized that “no child is ever a mistake” during his last Angelus address before Christmas Day. “A child is a gift of life,” the Holy Father told crowds of pilgrims on Sunday via a ...

Youth-group participants are among the few children who have had their drawings and letters received by the Holy Father. Young parishioners from the Church of St. Eugene in the Roman suburb of Parioli ...

Pope Francis delivers a speech to the Roman Curia for the exchange of christmas greetings at the Vatican. ©vatican Media/Cpp/IPA via ZUMA Press/dpa Pope Francis will lead the Angelus prayer, ...

Pope Francis has cancelled Sunday's Angelus prayer, after spending a restful first night in hospital in Rome, the Vatican reported on Saturday. The 88-year-old pope had slept well in the Gemelli ...

Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis will remain in hospitalized following his pneumonia diagnosis and will not deliver the weekly Angelus prayer – for only the third time in his almost 12-year-long papacy. The ...

(CNN) — The Vatican says it is unclear how long Pope Francis will stay in hospital and he will not lead Sunday’s Angelus prayer after he was admitted on Friday with a respiratory tract infection. The ...

Thousands of people streamed to a small Italian hilltop village not far from Rome on Sunday, to hear Pope Leo deliver his first Angelus prayer from his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. "I am happy ...

ROME — Pope Francis continues his recovery from double pneumonia at Rome’s Gemelli hospital with the Vatican expected to issue the traditional Sunday Angelus prayer as a written text for the fifth ...

Children in Rome have welcomed the news of Pope Francis’ return to the Vatican after the pontiff spent nearly 40 days in Gemelli Hospital due to complex respiratory illnesses, including bilateral ...