The mother of missing Dorset teenager Gaia Pope has launched an appeal desperately urging people to ‘check their garages and vans because she could be being held prisoner there’.

Little kids have 10 times the energy most adults have. Put them in contact with a famous person, and anything can happen.  MountainButorac, a Catholic blogger, recently took his goddaughter to see Pope Francis II in Rome. And the lucky little one didn't just get to see him, she got close enough to receive a […]

Pope Francis will make a trip to Egypt next month, the Vatican said on Saturday, giving the pontiff another opportunity to promote better relations between Catholics and Muslims. Francis has accepted an invitation to Cairo on April 28-29 from President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Catholic bishops, the pope of the Coptic church of Alexandria and the […]

Marie Collins, an Irish survivor of clerical sex abuse, resigned Wednesday from Pope Francis’s child protection panel, accusing senior Vatican officials of “shameful” blocking of reforms approved by the pontiff. The 70-year-old, who was raped by a hospital chaplain at 13, explained her decision in an article for the National Catholic Reporter (NCR). Collins’s departure […]

One of the 17 cardinals Pope Francis chose has openly opposed efforts by Indiana Gov. Mike Pence.

Country singer-songwriter Cassadee Pope premiered the music video for “Summer” on June 2. She hits the beach in the sun-kissed clip. “Summer” is the lead single from Pope’s EP of the same name. It’s her first release since last year’s standalone song “I Am Invincible” and her 2013 album Frame by…

The historic visit will produce one of the biggest security operations in U.S. history.

By James Oliphant ORLANDO (Reuters) – Bob Cortes, a Republican legislator in Florida, fears he is losing the Hispanic vote that helped get him elected. The culprits: Republican presidential candidates such as Donald Trump who are railing against immigration. The upcoming visit by the most socially progressive pope in generations threatens to alienate them even […]

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Pope Francis travels to the Ecuadorean port of Guayaquil on Monday for a Mass expected to draw more than a million people, as Latin America's first pontiff tours his home continent with a message of compassion for the weak and respect for an ailing planet.

Pope Francis will travel in a different kind of "popemobile" during his visit to the Philippines later this week — an open "jeepney", organisers said Monday. The iconic jeepney — originally made from converted US military jeeps left behind after World War II — has become a symbol of the Philippines and still serves as […]