Pope Francis has rebuked one of his cardinals in a row over whether Rome can 'impose' its interpretation on different bishops' conferences around the world.
Pope Francis has marked 50 years of ecumenical Catholic-Methodist dialogue in a milestone occasion in which the Pope praised the 'grandchildren of the Reformation' who never technically split from Rome.
A 'Day of Evangelical Churches' will be celebrated in Argentina each year on October 31 after the country's senate passed a bill with cross-party support to establish the commemoration.
Pope Francis implicitly criticised the US today for pulling out of the Paris agreement on climate change, praising the agreement as a means to control the devastating effects of global warming.
Two prisoners who were invited to meet Pope Francis for lunch on his visit to Bologna earlier this month took advantage of the occasion to escape, according to AFP which cited local media reports.
Pope Francis will next month meet Myanmar's top Buddhist monks, its military generals and civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi when he visits that country and Bangladesh, both of which are caught up in a crisis over the Rohingya Muslim minority.
Forty Catholic institutions from around the world announced on Tuesday, the anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi, that they were shunning investments in fossil fuels.
Pope Francis joined other church leaders in the USA and around world to offer prayers and condolences after at least 50 people were killed and more than 400 wounded in Las Vegas in the worst mass shooting in American history.
The so-called 'foreign minister' of the Russian Orthodox Church's Moscow Patriarchate is on the move. Last week, he gave a notable and bold speech in London organised by the Russian Embassy, before travelling to Rome to meet with Pope Francis, who raised the thorny issues of Ukraine and religious freedom in Russia, and, more ceremonially, Francis' predecessor Pope Benedict XVI.