Pope Francis

The government’s criticisms echo those of survivors and concern Francis’ omission of any reference to the sexual abuse suffered by Indigenous children in the schools, as well as his refusal to name the Catholic Church as an institution bearing any responsibility.

It was a stunning image: Pope Francis briefly wearing a full Indigenous headdress, after he apologized for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s “disastrous” residential school system for Indigenous children.

Pope Francis delivered an apology Monday for the “catastrophic” abuses committed against Canada’s Indigenous communities, many of whom were forced into Catholic residential schools where physical and sexual abuse was prevalent.

he pontiff says the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed their families and marginalized generations in ways still being felt today.

Pope Francis traveled to Canada on Sunday for a six-day visit to the country where he plans to apologize to Indigenous peoples.

Pope Francis has landed in Canada, beginning a fraught visit to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools.

Pope Francis plans to apologize to Indigenous groups on Canadian soil for harms inflicted at church-run residential schools. When he does, Francis will add to the Catholic Church’s growing ledger of atonement for past transgressions.

The pontiff told Reuters that the idea “never entered my mind” to announce a planned retirement at the end of the summer, though he repeated he might step down some day.

Pope Francis has blasted the “ferocity and cruelty” of Russian troops in Ukraine while praising the “heroism” and “courage” of Ukrainians to defend their land. He also insisted there weren’t “good guys and bad guys” in the conflict.

Pope Francis has announced he will elevate 21 churchmen to the rank of cardinal in a ceremony at the Vatican in late August. Among those tapped by the pontiff to receive the prestigious red hat will be two prelates from India and one each based in Mongolia, Ghana, Nigeria, Singapore, East Timor, Paraguay and Brazil, in keeping with Francis’ determination...

Pope Francis has created 10 new saints, rallying from knee pain that had forced him to use a wheelchair. Francis stood for a long period at the start of Sunday’s ceremony to greet priests concelebrating the Mass, and hobbled onto the altar. There, he proclaimed the six men and four women saints, including a Dutch priest-journalist who was killed by...

Pope Francis told an Italian newspaper he had offered to travel to Moscow to meet with President Vladimir Putin to try to end Russia’s war in Ukraine and suggested the invasion might have been provoked by NATO’s eastward expansion.

Pope Francis has made an Easter plea for peace in Ukraine and in other wars in the world

Pope Francis opened Holy Week  Sunday with a call for an Easter truce in Ukraine to make room for a negotiated peace, highlighting the need for leaders to “make some sacrifices for the good of the people.”

Pope Francis is praying for an end to the “sacrilegious” war in Ukraine and for the world to show compassion to refugees

Pope Francis says he is considering making a visit to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, and he has blasted Russia’s war in Ukraine as an “infantile and destructive aggression.”

Pope Francis has made a historic apology to Indigenous Peoples for the “deplorable” abuses suffered in Canada’s residential schools.

Within the last week, an unusual private meeting involving dozens of Cardinals, Bishops and theologians was held in Chicago, with discussions centering on how best to support Pope Francis.

In a speech at the Vatican Thursday, the pope called out leaders who “continue to govern the world like a chessboard, where the powerful study the moves to extend dominance to the damage of the others.”

On Sunday, Pope Francis told thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square that every day brings more atrocities in what is a “senseless massacre”