This past Christmas, the Vatican's Nativity scene had a newborn ... JANUARY 12: Pope Francis delivers his Sunday Angelus blessing from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square ...

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For the second time in less than a year, a historic church in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia is coping with an act of vandalism. This time, someone stole a decades-old baby Jesus ...

US President Joe Biden spoke with Pope Francis on Saturday and awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor, the White House said. It was the ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in Assisi was started in 1228. The painter Cimabue (also called Cenni di Pepo) ...

About a month after the event, Francis told faithful gathered at St. Peter’s Square that in ... the world showing Francis looking at a Nativity scene where Jesus was placed on a keffiyeh ...

In "Hope," Francis reveals that he made a vow to the Virgin Mary on July 15, 1990. That evening, he writes, he was watching TV with his Jesuit community in Buenos Aires when, "a sordid scene ...

With his letter, Pope Francis wishes to encourage the beautiful tradition of preparing the Nativity Scene in the days before Christmas. In keeping with the tradition, various Vatican dicasteries have ...

On July 15th that year he was watching TV with fellow Jesuits in Buenos Aires when “a sordid scene appeared ... than at St Peter’s where all recent popes are buried. [ Pope Francis knows ...

As pope, Francis eschewed the trappings of grandeur. He refused to stay in the papal apartment and lives modestly in the Santa Marta guesthouse near St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. He made the ...