PHILADELPHIA -- Read the full text of Pope Francis' Sunday Mass homily concluding the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. Today the word of God surprises us with powerful and thought-provoking ...

Pope Francis opened solemn Holy Week services with Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square, stressing humility and remembering the dead in the Germanwings crash. At the end of Mass outside St. Peter’s ...

ROMEROME — Pope Francis rallied from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems to lead some 60,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday, making a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner ...