VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has begun correcting some of Pope Francis’ more questionable financial reforms and decisions ...

Pope Francis waves as he leaves after celebrating the beatification ceremony of Pope Paul VI, and a Mass for the closing of a two-week synod on family issues, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in ...

Associated Press reporter Nicole Winfield, who covered Pope Francis at the Vatican during his entire pontificate, earned the nickname “la prima della classe” -- or “the first in class” -- from him in ...

Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell, (center right) spreads incense around the body of Pope Francis on Wednesday inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, where he will lie in state for three ...

Frances Lapp might have been a professor of English literature, or a lawyer or a doctor, said her longtime friend and UC Berkeley classmate Henry Elson. But she was born in that generation of women ...

Pope Francis has urged journalists to not push “disinformation and polarization” in the media in his annual message for the World Day of Social Communications. The pontiff’s message comes as the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — He called me “la prima della classe,” or “the first in class.” It wasn’t necessarily a compliment. I had earned the nickname from Pope Francis in 2018, a year that marked a low ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — He called me “la prima della classe,” or “the first in class.” It wasn’t necessarily a compliment. I had earned the nickname from Pope Francis in 2018, a year that marked a low ...