Pope Francis called for national reconciliation in the US on Wednesday, saying that while racism is intolerable, the street violence that has broken out is “self-destructive and self-defeating”. F...

Pope Francis called on Sunday for global solidarity in fighting the coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout, urging the relaxation of international sanctions, debt relief for poor nations and ce...

Pope Francis prostrates himself on the floor of a near-empty St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Friday to pray at a “Passion of the Lord” service commemorating Jesus’s last hours of life an...

Pope Francis stressed on Wednesday the importance of families and friends making small gestures such as hugs and phone calls during times of isolation in a pandemic. “We must rediscover the concret...

Pope Francis’s Holy Week and Easter services, which normally draw tens of thousands of people, will be held without the public attending because of the coronavirus outbreak, a step believed to be un...

Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on February 28, 2013, a papal conclave of 115 cardinals elected Bergoglio as his successor on March 13, 2013. The Telegraph gave a wide coverage, carryin...

The battle to halt the coronavirus brought sweeping new restrictions Monday, with Italy expanding a travel ban to the entire country, Israel ordering all visitors quarantined just weeks before Passove...

Pope Francis has cancelled his regular appearances in public to avoid crowds gathering to see him and will stream them on the internet from inside the Vatican because of the coronavirus outbreak in It...

The Vatican said on Friday that a patient in its health services had tested positive for coronavirus, the first in the tiny, walled city state surrounded by Rome. The discovery worsened the prospects ...

Pope Francis, who cancelled a Lent retreat for the first time in his papacy because he is suffering from a cold, has tested negative for coronavirus, the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero reported on Tu...