The Colombian musician announced that he will perform for the pope when he visits the US later this year. Juanes will perform alongside Italian singer Andrea Bocelli.
Pope Francis' long-awaited encyclical "Laudato Si'," in which the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics warned that climate change had brought the planet to a "breaking point" and called for an environmental "revolution," has received mixed reactions across the American political landscape.
Pope Francis will call on governments to curtail the use of fossil fuels use and on people around the globe to alter their lifestyles in order to avoid "unprecedented destruction of the ecosystem," Vox reported based on the leaked first draft of an encyclical the pontiff is set to publish on Thursday.
Taking unprecedented action regarding the catholic church’s past struggles with charges of child molestation, Pope Francis has just announced the creation of a tribunal listen to cases of bishops who have been accused of covering up pedophile acts conducted by priests.
In a move that many Salvadorean Catholics have considered long overdue, Oscar Romero, the Roman Catholic archbishop who was murdered during the 1980-92 civil war, has finally been beatified.
On Saturday, during a homily at a Rome seminary for the training of future priests from North America, Pope Francis praised the work and spiritual qualities of Rev. Junipero Serra The Pontiff is set to elevate the Spanish native to sainthood in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. in Sept. 23.
Surviving family members of the missing people are now hoping that Pope Francis, who hails from Buenos Aires, will order the opening up of files from that bloody time.
Pope Francis talked about equal rights for women during his catechetical reflection on marriage and family at his weekly General Audience in St. Peter's Square on Wednesday, according to the Vatican Radio.
Pope Francis has expressed support for countries to come together and battle climate change. The Vatican will release the encyclical in June, calling for countries to support the upcoming UN Paris accords on climate change.
Pope Francis on on Tuesday accepted the resignation of a Kansas City, Missouri, bishop who had for years had remained in office despite having been convicted of a sex-abuse cover-up.
Junípero Serra, the 18th century Spanish Franciscan friar who founded a mission in Baja California and introduced Christianity to a majority of California, will be canonized by Pope Francis in the U.S. The Spanish Franciscan will be the first Hispanic saint in the U.S.
On Friday the U.N. Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon praised U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro for striving to restore diplomatic relations between the two nations.
Despite allegations that Monsignor Juan Barros had covered up for a pedophile priest, the Vatican is defending Pope Francis' appointment of the Chilean bishop.
Opening Holy Week services with Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis brought his attention recent tragic events by stressing his congregation strive toward humility and take time to remember the dead in the Germanwings crash.
President Barack Obama will welcome Pope Francis to the White House on Sept. 23, the administration confirmed on Thursday. The leader of the world's more than 1 billion Catholics will become the third pontiff to visit the executive mansion.
Archbishop Romero of El Salvador, killed in 1980 for his work for the poor in the war-stricken nation, will be beatified in May after decades of appealing to the Vatican.
