The Vatican acted to mend strained relations with Ukraine on Tuesday after Pope Francis upset Kyiv by referring to Russian ultra-nationalist Darya Dugina, who was killed by a car bomb near Moscow, as ...

Pope Francis has inducted 20 cardinals from around the world, 16 of whom are young enough to have a say in any potential vote for the next pope. The selections hailed from Asia, Europe, Africa and the...

Fourteen thousand Jesuits and their co-workers across the world conclude their celebration of the Ignatian Year on July 31. The Ignatian year commemorates the 500th anniversary of St Ignatius’ c...

Pope Francis has called the devastation visited on generations of indigenous people in Canada by European colonisers — carried out with the blessing of the Roman Catholic Church — a &ldquo...

Pope Francis on Saturday said the treatment of Indigenous people in Canada amounted to a genocide, after a six-day trip where he apologized to survivors of abuse at Catholic-run schools. "I didn...

On a trip to Canada, Pope Francis has asked indigenous residential school survivors for forgiveness for the serious abuse and erasure of identity and culture that they endured. But is an apology enoug...

On May 15, Pope Francis canonised Devasahayam Pillai (1712- 1752) of Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu as India’s first layman saint of the Roman Catholic Church. About 50,000 faithful from across the w...

Pope Francis' 38th trip abroad takes him to Canada. He wants to "meet and embrace" Indigenous people and draw attention to their suffering, to which the Catholic Church contributed. But ...

“I must thank my late Mother Saiba Swain for making me learn traditional painting art. Though I have studied only up to Class VII, the knowledge that I have acquired over the years is now paying...

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik will meet Pope Francis in Vatican City next week. The meeting is significant as it will give a further boost to Naveen’s secular image, which he has careful...