It is an interesting time for Pope Francis to have ushered in a Holy Year, also known as a jubilee, for the global Catholic Church – a time for peace, forgiveness and pardon. With the sad reality of ...

Wearing red vestments for the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Pope Francis knocked on the door of the church in Rome's Rebibbia prison complex and walked over its threshold. After ...

Amid security worries, millions of pilgrims are expected to descend on Rome for a Jubilee Year of major Catholic celebrations ...