Pope Francis delivered his annual “state of the world” address on Thursday, asking ambassadors to pursue a “diplomacy of hope ...

On Dec. 20, Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Brian Burch as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Burch, ...

Warning of “the increasingly concrete threat of a world war,” Pope Francis called for “the diplomacy of hope” in his address ...

Aymond of New Orleans offered prayers for victims of ... In a telegram sent to Archbishop Aymond on Jan. 2, Pope Francis said he was “deeply saddened” to learn of deaths and injuries caused ...

In what may have been a pointed gift, Macron presented the pope with a book detailing the restoration of Notre-Dame, news channel BFM reported. Sunday marked ... comes as a new far-right Corsican ...

Non-fiction has seen better sales days, but memoirs from Geraldine Brooks and Hannah Kent might help revive the genre – or ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Pope Francis on Monday ... who has also written a book about women and the church. “It’s something completely new,” and shows what can be done ...

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A van traveled to the city with “the same intent,” his security detail told the pope at the time. Both threats were intercepted by Iraqi authorities, according to the book. Francis was the ...

the release of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas in October 2023 and for humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. But the pope drew criticism from Israeli officials in mid-November after Vatican News ...