Argentine football great Lionel Messi thanked Pope Francis Monday for "making the world a better place" as the late pontiff's ...

His predecessor loved Mozart, but Pope Francis's passion was football -- for him "the most beautiful game" and also a vehicle ...

Amid all the end-of-the-world angst that marked the end of 2012, a little-known prophecy skated under the radar when Pope ...

From Argentine compatriots Lionel Messi and the late Diego Maradona to Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Gianluigi Buffon, Francis received the greatest stars of football at the Vatican, signing dozens of ...

His predecessor loved Mozart, but Pope Francis's passion was football, for him "the most beautiful game" and also a vehicle ...

VATICAN CITY, Holy See (AFP) — His predecessor loved Mozart ... of a smiling pope under the club’s blue-and-red striped emblem, and the words: “Goodbye forever, Holy Father!” ...

Francis' first state visit to America—which included a stop at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City—took place in September 2015, just three months after Trump descended the golden escalator at ...

Buenos Aires (AFP) – Argentine football great Lionel ... photo of a smiling pope under the club's blue-and-red striped emblem, and the words: "Goodbye forever, Holy Father!" ...

To honour the eight members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) who were killed while performing humanitarian duties ...

Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images It is a special time in the Catholic Church and is accompanied by many small signs of great symbolism. As of Monday, Vatican documents no longer bear the emblem of ...

On Monday, San Lorenzo's home page showed a large photo of a smiling pope under the club's blue-and-red striped emblem ... part of people's lives," he told AFP. But it was not just an end in ...