The U.S. government has announced sanctions against Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other officials for human rights ...

FILE – Pope Francis, left, reaches to embrace Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill after signing a joint declaration at the Jose Marti International airport in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016.

In late 2021, Francis asked Cardinal O’Malley to once again serve as an interlocutor between the Vatican, Washington, and Havana, carrying messages from the Pope urging Cuban President Miguel ...

Pope Francis, who was elevated to the papacy in 2013, died on Monday, April 21, a day after celebrating Easter at the Vatican. Here are some key events in the life of the man born Jorge Mario ...

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

On assignment for my New Jersey newspaper, I stood in the middle of the “Plaza de la Revolucion” atop a hill overlooking Havana. Pope Francis wasn’t scheduled to show up until 9 a.m. for an ...

Pope Francis presides over a papal Mass with the Celebration of the Lord's Passion at St. Peter's Basilica on March 29, ... before an estimated 200,000 people in Havana’s Revolution Square.

And so, when Pope Leo was elected to lead the Catholic Church and traces of his rich heritage began to emerge, including an ancestor who had been born in Havana, a Cuban genealogist in Miami rushed to ...

Feb. 12, 2016: Meets Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill during a stopover in Havana and declares “We are brothers,” in first such meeting between a pope and patriarch in over 1,000 years.

A pope chosen from “almost the ends of the Earth,” as he said upon his selection in 2013, Francis was a relentless advocate for migrants and marginalized people, as well as for the environment.