VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Like his predecessor, Pope Francis reached out to Rome's Jewish community at the very start of his pontificate, pledging to continue to strengthen the increasingly close ties between Catholics and Jews.......
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- While the Vatican has picked the highly disciplined Jesuits as advance men for planning papal pilgrimages and to run its worldwide broadcasting network, the notion of a Jesuit pope is still being absorbed in the Holy See.......
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The following is the Vatican's official English translation of Pope Francis' speech `'Urbi et Orbi" delivered in Italian from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica Wednesday night.......
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The pomp surrounding his selection was just the beginning of an exceptionally busy few days for Pope Francis. A look at the first night - and what comes after.......
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Francis, the name the new pope has chosen, is a much-beloved Italian saint who is identified with peace, poverty and a simple lifestyle.......
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis is the first ever from the Americas, an austere Jesuit intellectual who modernized Argentina's conservative Catholic church.......
