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Pope Francis yesterday, made a startling revelation in an article titled “It Is an Honor to Be Called a Revolutionary”, which has got everyone talking. “There is no hell where the souls of sinners suffer in eternity”, Pope Francis was quoted as saying in a ...

A number of world leaders, including Pope Francis, spoke out against the decision Wednesday. Francis’ comments came during a previously scheduled meeting with a Palestinian delegation of religious and intellectual leaders before Trump’s address. Francis said, “My thoughts now go ...

Pope Francis arrived in Colombia on Wednesday with a message of unity for a nation deeply divided by a peace deal that ended a five-decade war with Marxist FARC rebels but left many victims of the bloodshed wary of the ...

Today is Ash Wednesday.  Ash Wednesday opens Lent, a season of fasting and prayer and takes place 46 days before Easter Sunday, and is chiefly observed by Catholics, although many other Christians observe it too. Ash Wednesday comes from the ...

Mother Teresa has been proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis in front of 100,000 Catholics this morning. Mother Teresa, the tiny nun who cared for the world’s most unwanted and became an icon of the Catholic Church, was canonised at ...

Mother Teresa of Calcutta will officially be declared a saint tomorrow September 4th, 2016. The Roman Catholic nun, known for her work with the poor and needy, will be canonised during a special mass at St Peter’s Square in the ...

Pope Francis paid a sombre visit to the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday, becoming the third consecutive pontiff to make the pilgrimage to the place where Adolf Hitler‘s forces killed more than 1 million people, most of ...

This is the moment Pope Francis fell over during Mass in front of a television audience of millions while visiting Poland’s holiest site. The 79-year-old Pontiff stumbled at the altar and had to be helped to his feet as he ...

  Pope Francis made some controversial statements on  said on Sunday that Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should seek forgiveness from homosexuals for the way they had treated them. The statement  from the Roman Catholic leader comes despite the ...

Brushing aside concerns for his security, Pope Francis arrived in Kenya on Wednesday for his first-ever visit to Africa — a country torn by sectarian violence. The pontiff played down security fears about his trip, joking that he was “more ...

Pope Francis left Fiumicino Airport in Rome this morning aboard an Alitalia Flight for his first African tour. The Pope will spend three days in Kenya before heading to Uganda, and round off the tour in Bangui, Central African Republic.

A record six million people poured into the rain-soaked streets of Manila and its biggest park as Pope Francis ended his Asian pilgrimage with the biggest-ever papal mass. The crowd estimate included people who attended the Pope’s final Mass in ...

Two of Pope Francis’s great-nephews and their mother, the wife of his nephew, were killed in a car crash yesterday morning, the Vatican has announced. Their car collided with a truck carrying grain just after midnight near Cordoba, central Argentina, ...

Pope Francis has spoken publicly about the prospect of his own death for the first time, giving himself ‘two or three years’ before he meets his maker. In a press conference aboard his jet as he returned from a trip ...

A nun has given birth to a baby boy in the central Italian city of Rieti. She said she had no idea she was pregnant, but the question is, was she supposed to ever get pregnant in the first place? ...

By now most of you must have read that Pope Francis said there was no Hell and that the story of Adam and Eve was a fable. Listen, you’d not believe I almost fell for this hoax. What made it ...

Photos of  Pope Francis embracing a severely disfigured man have gone viral online. On Wednesday, the pontiff was addressing a general audience at St Peter’s Square in Rome when a man covered in neuronal tumours approached the leader of the Catholic Church asking for ...

History was made today when Pope Francis and the ex-pope Benedict met on the helipad at Castel Gandolfo. Francis flew to the summer retreat by helicopter today, to visit Benedict, who has been living at the papal villa since he officially ...

Pope Francis officially began his ministry today in an installation Mass simplified to suit his style, but still grand enough to draw hundreds of thousands of people to St. Peter’s Square to witness the start of his papacy. Beginning office ...

The official mass to inaugurate Pope Francis as the bishop of Rome — and leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics — will take place on today, Tuesday, CNN reports. Thousands of Catholics waving flags from around the world ...

The new pope is the 76 year old Archbishop of Buenos Aires from Argentina. His native language is Spanish, but he is also fluent in Italian and German. He is the first non-European pope of the modern area. He was ...