A local Italian group launched an online petition urging Pope Francis, the Vatican and others to stop the "fir tree-icide." ...

I want all diocesan realities that own real estate to offer their contribution to stem the housing emergency,” Pope Francis ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Friday called on the diocese of Rome to respond to a growing housing crisis in the Eternal City, ...

The Vatican's stance is extremely tough, uncompromising, and unyielding: priests who commit the crime of attacking the unity ...

President-elect Trump promised to end all wars. The Vatican’s secretary of state cautioned that there are no ‘magic solutions’ to global conflicts.

Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period ...

Sundays spent in nature and a return of year-round meatless Fridays were a few of the ideas floated Nov. 13 at the U.S.