President Joe Biden has canceled the final overseas trip of his presidency just hours before he was set to depart for Rome and the Vatican, choosing to remain in Washington to monitor the response to fires raging in California.

President Joe Biden has canceled a planned trip to Rome to meet with Pope Francis so that he can instead focus on federal response to the rapidly moving wildfires that are tearing through the Los Angeles area,

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden on Wednesday canceled the final overseas trip of his presidency just hours before he was set to depart for Rome and the Vatican, choosing to remain in Washington ...

Italian farmers, who are among this year’s pilgrims of hope for the 2025 Jubilee, brought their animals to the Vatican on Friday to be blessed by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti on the feast of St ...

The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis had suffered a “contusion” on his right forearm after falling at his residence that same morning. While the arm was not fractured in the accident ...

Bishops in hardline Sydney and centrist Melbourne want Skrbis gone, and have asked the Vatican to investigate. Progressive Brisbane, his chief supporter, is doubling down. “There’s totally ...

Pope Francis has met with more than 100 comedians from across the world, including Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg, at the Vatican in Rome. The Pope said comedians have the "power to ...

Bettino Craxi was a significant figure in Italian political history whose reforms changed the country, President Sergio Mattarella said on the 25th anniversary of the controversial late former Socialist leader's death in Bribesville-imposed exile in Tunisia.

Apostolic Exhortation on Jesus Christ and the Peoples of Oceania: Walking His Way, Telling His Truth, Living His Life Pope John Paul II Rome, November 22, 2001 Reference to Mary: paragraph 5 and 53, (deep devotion to Mary ... an integral aspect of the ...

Pope Francis has fallen over and injured his right arm but did not suffer any fractures, the Vatican says.In a statement, the Holy See press office said that due to a fall Thursday morning in the ...

President Sergio Mattarella stressed the need for reciprocal respect and dialogue in a civilized society at the inauguration of the 70th academic year of the University of Salento on Friday. "There is a need to find new balances and these must be found through culture,

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio ...