Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 22:43
A 51-year-old man who set himself alight in St Peter`s Square in Vatican City earlier this week died of his injuries in hospital on Sunday, local media said.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 21, 2013, 19:15
Pope Francis warned Vatican administrators on Friday that their work can take a downward spiral into mediocrity, gossip and bureaucratic squabbling if they forget that theirs is a professional vocation of service to the church.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 20:39
Pope Francis told members of his favourite Buenos Aires football team on Wednesday that he would visit his native Argentina in 2016 for the 200th anniversary of its independence, the club said.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 07:16
Three homeless men, one of them carrying his dog, helped Pope Francis celebrate his 77th birthday, joining him for Mass and breakfast and presenting him with a bouquet of sunflowers.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 00:49
Pope Francis has turned around the way the Catholic Church is seen but his promise of Vatican reform awaits next year, observers said on Tuesday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, December 18, 2013, 00:46
Pope Francis declared the 16th-century Jesuit Pierre Favre a saint, bypassing the Vatican`s typical saint-making procedures to honour the first recruit of Jesuit founder St. Ignatius Loyola.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 20:11
Four homeless people, one of them bringing his dog, helped Pope Francis celebrate his 77th birthday at the Vatican on Tuesday.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 15, 2013, 16:19
Pope Francis said he knew a lot of "good" Marxists but was no communist himself, following criticism of his diatribes against unfettered capitalism from conservative commentators in the United States.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 14, 2013, 23:27
Pope Francis has received a candle-topped birthday cake three days early a surprise from children at the Vatican.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 12, 2013, 22:03
Pope Francis today urged governments around the world to show more solidarity and strive for equality following a period of economic crisis, a day after being declared "Person of the Year" by Time magazine.
Last Updated: Friday, December 6, 2013, 19:56
Pope Francis is setting up a Vatican committee to fight sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 5, 2013, 21:26
Pope Francis has set up a committee prevent child sex abuse in Catholic churches and help the victims.
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