ROME (Reuters) - Rome's chief Jewish rabbi on Thursday sharply criticised Pope Francis over the pontiff's recent ramping up ...

While some Jewish leaders condemned the pope’s recent remarks on Israel, others believe that Catholic-Jewish relations can ...

Vásquez was most recently selected by Francis to oversee the Diocese of Tyler, also in Texas, after he dismissed its former ...

Pope Francis expressed the hope that the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that came into effect on Sunday, Jan. 19, “would ...

Pope Francis called for the respect of the ceasefire declared in the Gaza Strip and for the rapid delivery of humanitarian ...

Pope Francis thanked the negotiators of the peace deal between Israel and Hamas in an interview on Sunday, saying, “Peace ...

During his Angelus address, the Holy Father also expressed his hope that all hostages “may finally return home and embrace ...

Pope Francis will be remembered as the anti-Israel pope — or, more broadly, the anti-Western pope. The latest example of the pope’s hostility toward Israel was the creche on display in the ...

C onflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, was preparing to fly to Washington to ...

Pope Francis said the people who have been trapped in a parish in Gaza had a decent meal for the first time in a long time, ...

The 266th head of the Catholic Church called for peace in the Middle East—a routine request from his predecessors. But Pope ...

Abetting the global campaign to demonize the Jewish state, the pontiff endangered the lives of Jews but got the Gazans no closer to “the day after.” ...