Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 01:59
Pope Francis visited his predecessor Benedict XVI on Monday for an informal Christmas greeting, as the Argentine pontiff prepares to celebrate his first Christmas as leader of the world`s Roman Catholics.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 23:41
Pope Francis expressed support for Italians protesting over high unemployment, recession and austerity but urged them to reject the "temptation of violence".
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: Friday, December 20, 2013, 08:27
Pope Francis is to make a brief visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories from May 25, his first to the Holy Land, Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot said.
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, named "Person of the Year" last week by TIME magazine, has been accorded the distinction once again. This time it`s a leading lifestyle magazine which actively promotes gay rights.
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: Sunday, December 15, 2013, 04:03
Pope Francis may have been named Time magazine`s Person of the Year, but he has come under scathing criticism from a growing number of traditionalist Catholics for cracking down on a religious order that celebrates the old Latin Mass.
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