He has said it would be marked on the fourth Sunday of July each year in Catholic communities around the world...

He has created a second commission of experts to study whether women could be deacons, after a first one failed to reach a consensus...

Francis is a big football fan and met Maradona, who died in November, several times after becoming pope in 2013...

It was believed to be the first time since he became the pontiff in 2013 that Francis, will have skipped leading a major papal event for health reasons....

Readers' Speak: The progressive Pope Francis; Yamuna polluted again with puja offerings...

The 13 new cardinals will be elevated to the high rank at a ceremony known as a consistory at the Vatican on November 28...

Homosexual people have the right to be in a family... they are children of God, the pontiff said...

Previously he wore masks only in a car taking him to his weekly audiences in the Vatican...

Turkish President Erdogan has declared the monument was once again a mosque following a court ruling revoking its status as a museum...

Francis breaks his silence on the tensions in the US, which has seen 8 nights of protests ...