Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of Cuban prisoners as a “gesture of great hope” that he prayed would be undertaken elsewhere, as he welcomed an agreement the Vatican helped facilitate as ...

Pope Francis received one of the U.S.'s top honors, published a memoir, and facilitated relations between Washington and Havana.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday hailed the release of ... facilitate as part of a three-way dialogue with Washington and Havana that dates back to the Cuban missile crisis.

The archbishop of Havana asked him for the text of a speech ... they represent the job. But Pope Francis is, judging from this book, a roundhead rather than a cavalier; he says he has still ...

By Christopher Wells Hope is “a very appropriate value” for the Sixth International Conference, “Por el Equilibrio del Mundo” ...

Cuba then informed Pope Francis it would gradually release 553 convicts as authorities explore the legal and humanitarian ways to make it happen. Havana said, however, that the gesture to the ...

Vatican number two Cardinal Pietro Parolin said it was "significant" that Havana had responded to an appeal by Pope Francis for clemency. Social media in Cuba lit up on Wednesday morning with ...