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The latest news, stories and features on Pope Francis, the current head of the Catholic church who resides in Vatican City. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis has held the position since 2013, taking over from his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI.

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BANGKOK, THAILAND - NOVEMBER 21: Pope Francis visits the Saint Louis Hospital on November 21, 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. Pope Francis arrived in Bangkok yesterday to begin a three day tour in Thailand followed by Japan. This is the first visit by the head of the Roman Catholic church since St. John Paul II back in 1984. Thailand, a Buddhist country has approximately 388,000 Catholics, out of 69 million people. (Photo by Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)

Pope Francis will allow women to vote in bishops' meeting for first time ever

Channel: World World April 26, 2023 By Jordan King
King Charles given pieces of the True Cross by the Pope

Charles’s coronation to feature shards of the True Cross given to him by Pope

Channel: UK UK April 19, 2023 By Katie Boyden
Pope Francis delivers his traditional Christmas Day Urbi et Orbi message to the city and the world from the main balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, December 25, 2022. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

Pope Francis calls for investigators to find 'Vatican Girl' missing for 40 years

Channel: World World April 13, 2023 By Sam Corbishley

Pope Francis addresses crowd of 45,000 on Easter Sunday despite health fears

Channel: World World April 9, 2023 By Gergana Krasteva
Pope Francis delivers the Urbi et Orbi Christmas message

What is the meaning of Urbi et Orbi?

Channel: World World April 9, 2023 By Jack Slater
VATICAN, VATICAN CITY - APRIL 07: Pope Francis celebrates the Passion of the Lord on Good Friday in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican City, Vatican, on April 07, 2023. Due to intense cold weather the Pope will renounce to preside the traditional open air Via Crucis celebration at the Colosseum. (Photo by Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Pope Francis misses Good Friday procession because of 'extremely cold weather'

Channel: World World April 8, 2023 By Jasper King
Pope Francis, seated in his wheelchair, goes to salute Cardinals at the end of the Palm Sunday mass on April 2, 2023 at St. Peter's square in The Vatican. (Photo by Vincenzo PINTO / AFP) (Photo by VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images)

Pope Francis battles hoarse voice as he leads Palm Sunday Mass after hospital stay

Channel: World World April 2, 2023 By Katie Boyden
Pope Francis waves from his car as he leaves the Agostino Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, Saturday, April 1, 2023 after receiving treatment for a bronchitis, The Vatican said. Francis was hospitalized on Wednesday after his public general audience in St. Peter's Square at The Vatican. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis jokes 'I'm still alive' as he leaves hospital in time for Easter

Channel: World World April 1, 2023 By Sam Corbishley
Pope Francis leaves Assisi at the end of Economy of Francis, an international movement of young economists, entrepreneurs and change-makers committed to a process of inclusive dialogue and global change. To sign a treaty with young people. Tomorrow, 25 September, Pope Francis will be in Matera for a pastoral visit. In Assisi, Italy, on 24 September 2022 (Photo by Riccardo Fabi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pope Francis 'eats pizza with medics' ahead of discharge from hospital

Channel: World World March 31, 2023 By Tom Sanders
Pope Francis is helped get up the popemobile car as he leaves on March 29, 2023 at the end of the weekly general audience at St. Peter's square in The Vatican. (Photo by Vincenzo PINTO / AFP) (Photo by VINCENZO PINTO/AFP via Getty Images)

Pope Francis to spend 'several days' in hospital with pulmonary infection

Channel: UK UK March 29, 2023 By Craig Munro
Pope Francis pauses during an interview with The Associated Press at The Vatican, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Pope Francis said he hasn't even considered issuing norms to regulate future papal resignations and says he plans to continue on for as long as he can as bishop of Rome, despite a wave of attacks against him by some top-ranked cardinals and bishops. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

How Pope Francis changed the world in 10 years

Channel: World World March 12, 2023 By Craig Munro

Pope and Archbishop decry anti-gay laws in press conference on papal plane

Channel: World World February 6, 2023 By Siba Jackson
Pope Francis clarifies homosexuality and sin comments in new note

Pope Francis clarifies homosexuality and sin comments in new note

Channel: World World January 28, 2023 By Sam Corbishley
Play Video Pope Francis speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at The Vatican, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. Pope Francis said he hasn't even considered issuing norms to regulate future papal resignations and says he plans to continue on for as long as he can as bishop of Rome, despite a wave of attacks against him by some top-ranked cardinals and bishops. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Pope says laws criminalising homosexuality are 'unjust'

Channel: World World January 25, 2023 By Craig Munro
(FILES) This file handout picture released on February 15, 2018 by the Vatican press office shows Pope Francis (L) greeting Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, on June 28, 2017. - Pope Francis said December 28, 2022 that former pontiff Benedict XVI, 95, is "very ill", and urged people to pray for him before going to be by his side. Benedict, who in 2013 became the first pontiff to resign in six centuries, has been in increasingly frail health. (Photo by Handout / OSSERVATORE ROMANO / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / OSSERVATORE ROMANO" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/OSSERVATORE ROMANO/AFP via Getty Images)

Pope Francis pays tribute to Benedict XVI calling predecessor 'noble' and 'kind'

Channel: World World December 31, 2022 By Sam Corbishley
epa10383506 (FILE) - Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful at the end of the Way of the Cross on Good Friday in front of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy, 06 April 2012 (reissued 31 December 2022). According to the Holy See, pope emeritus Benedict XVI has died at age 95 on 31 December 2022. Born Joseph Ratzinger in Bavaria, Germany on 16 April 1927 was appointed leader of the Catholic Church on 19 April 2005 succeeding late pontiff John Paul II. EPA/MAURIZIO BRAMBATTI

Former Pope Benedict dies at the age of 95 in Vatican City

Channel: World World December 31, 2022 By Gergana Krasteva

How to write a letter to Pope Benedict XVI as he falls ill

Channel: World World December 29, 2022 By Elizabeth Atkin
VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - DECEMBER 24: Pope Francis presides Christmas Night Mass at St. Peter's Basilica on December 24, 2022 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

Pope decries world 'devoured by war, poverty and injustice' in fiery address

Channel: World World December 25, 2022 By Sean Seddon
Pope Francis greets Jesuit Father Marko Rupnik during a private audience at the Vatican in this Jan. 3, 2022.

Priest who 'groomed nun for Holy Trinity threesome' facing sex abuse claims

Channel: World World December 21, 2022 By Metro News Reporter
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The Pope's website taken offline in suspected hacker attack

Channel: Tech Tech December 1, 2022 By Anugraha Sundaravelu

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