Pope Francis made Catholic history on Sunday by being the first head of the Catholic church to ever visit the annual Venice ... theme of the trip.While in Indonesia, the world's most populous ...

Despite cancelling his scheduled meetings and audiences Monday due to a “mild flu-like condition,” Pope Francis is still ...

Francis, 87, began on Monday a 12-day, four-country, two-continent odyssey. JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Pope Francis on Monday embarked on his 45th and most ambitious trip of his papacy, both in terms ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — At the age of 87, Pope Francis will embark on an 11-day trip to Southeast Asia that ... is an act of humanity for him. It’s not a show to prove what he is still capable ...

That’s no small feat for a pope who turns 88 in December, uses a wheelchair, lost part of a lung to a respiratory infection as a young man and had to cancel his last foreign trip at the last ...

VATICAN CITY — If any evidence were needed to underscore that Pope Francis’ upcoming trip to Asia and Oceania is the longest, farthest and most challenging of his pontificate, it’s that he ...