The US sanctions Cuban President Díaz-Canel and other officials for human rights violations. Visa restrictions will target ...

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 ...

The United States government has imposed sanctions on Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and several other senior officials. This action comes exactly three years after the historic July 11 and 12, ...

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, 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 ...

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.

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

The Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor has died in Buenos Aires at age 98 ROME -- Cardinal ...

Robert Francis Prevost, the American cardinal who became Leo XIV after Pope Francis' death in April, ... one of their descendants, Manuel José Ramos y Bastos, born in Havana in 1755, ...