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President Joe Biden opened a five-day European trip Friday with a visit to Pope Francis at the Vatican.

President Joe Biden and Pope Francis’ upcoming meeting continues a long tradition of president-and-pope encounters, replete with notable moments involving gifts, gaffes and grieving.

Pope Francis has called for an end to the practice of returning migrants rescued at sea to Libya and other unsafe countries.

Pope Francis has celebrated grandparents and the elderly. It came on the Roman Catholic Church’s first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.

Pope Francis has made his first public appearance since surgery a week earlier

The Vatican says Pope Francis is in good condition, alert and breathing on his own after the pontiff underwent a three-hour operation that involved removing half of his colon

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A Vatican judge has indicted 10 people, including a cardinal, on charges including extortion, abuse of office and fraud in connection with the Secretariat of State’s 350 million-euro investment in a London real estate venture

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday. Blinken is the first high-level official of President Joe Biden’s administration to have a private meeting with the Pope.

Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority

Pope Francis denounced racism Sunday, the day the United Nations marks as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

GLAAD and other groups representing members of the LGBTQ community responded swiftly to the Vatican’s decree Monday that the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin.”

The Vatican has cleared a retired U.S. bishop of multiple allegations he sexually abused minors and teenagers, rejecting lay experts’ determination that a half-dozen claims were credible

Pope Francis has changed church law to explicitly allow women to do more things during Mass, granting them access to the altar, while reaffirming they cannot be priests

Pope Francis says he’s praying for the dead in the U.S. Capitol rioting and has appealed for calm to prevail in the United States.

Pope Francis has told a private Italian broadcaster that he was “astonished” by the mob attack at the U.S. Capitol.

Pope Francis has proclaimed an upcoming year dedicated to the family.

Pope Francis has raised 13 new cardinals to the highest rank in the Catholic hierarchy during a formal ceremony marked from beginning to end by the coronavirus pandemic

Men who have made allegations of abuse by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick expressed shock, outrage and anger after an internal Vatican report revealed the scale of what was known about the clergyman’s behavior and what was ignored

Pope Francis is halting his public general audiences and will limit participation at Christmas and other upcoming Masses amid a surge of coronavirus cases in Italy and the Vatican