Pope Francis met U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance on Easter Sunday. The meeting with Vance (and Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković) was the pope’s last meeting with a public figure.

After the day’s crowds dispersed, St. Peter’s Basilica stayed open through the night from Wednesday to Thursday, April 23 -24. Between 3 and 4 a.m., a few dozen people gathered in the section ...

Pope Francis would often share a witty remark with his visitors to talk about one of the main objectives set for him by the electing cardinals in 2013. “Reforming Rome,” Francis used to say ...

Twelve years—2013 to 2025—on the throne of Peter is a significant stretch, though still short when compared to the 26-year reign of St. John Paul II or the 20 years of Pope Pius XII.

(Illustration photo by Marko Vombergar/ALETEIA/ CC BY 2.0) A poster of Pope Francis in Mexico City, as people anticipate his arrival, February 12, 2016. For Francis, peace was first and foremost a ...

On April 24, a press conference was held at a location that became central during the soon-to-end pontificate: the Jesuit General Curia. During the event, a Spanish-speaking journalist asked a ...

At 9 a.m., Pope Francis left the modest guesthouse where he had lived for the past 12 years—an unassuming 750-square-foot apartment on the second floor, once known as Room 201, now sealed shut.

“First, I ask a favor of you: before the Bishop blesses his people, I ask you to pray to the Lord that he will bless me.” On March 13, 2013, when he appeared for the first time before a packed ...

A silence. Long, profound, intense, even solemn, yet without heaviness. From the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, the man who had just appeared in a plain white cassock—with no other adornments ...

A pilgim holds up a flag of Argentina as Pope Francis arrives to lead the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, 5 June 2019. (Photo by EPA/ETTORE FERRARI/Newscom/MaxPPP ...

New building (built after 1991) of Deir Mar Musa al-Habashi or Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian, Syria. (Photo by Bernard Gagnon / CC BY-SA 3.0) Italian Jesuit Father Paolo Dall’Oglio ...

Known as the "pope of mercy" and a champion of the marginalized, was Pope Francis truly open to the cause of women? Or did he only concede what could no longer be denied to half the people of God?