Pope Francis

Jerusalem’s Palm Sunday and the asymmetry of moral judgment - opinion

Why are Israeli actions so readily framed as moral failures, even when taken under conditions of ongoing threat, while the context that shapes those actions recedes so quickly?

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LATIN PATRIARCH of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, shakes hands with a person, as he passes through an Israeli checkpoint to attend Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, in the West Bank, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2025.
Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan meets with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, March 23, 2026

Yad Vashem Chairman Dayan meets with Pope Leo XIV to discuss Holocaust remembrance

Dayan and the Pope discussed potential collaborations between the Vatican and Yad Vashem regarding Holocaust commemoration, documentation, and education.

|ByDANYA SAPERSTEIN
Steve Bannon gestures during a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., February 20, 2025, in this still image taken from a handout video.

Steve Bannon attempted to work with Jeffrey Epstein against Pope Francis - CNN

Bannon, who had previously served as an advisor to US President Donald Trump, reportedly petitioned Epstein to help him take down the pope.

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Pope Leo XIV holds a Jubilee audience on the occasion of the Jubilee of Sport, at St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican June 14, 2025.

Pope Leo scraps Francis’s Vatican fundraising panel amid budget shift

Pope Leo has dissolved the Vatican's fundraising panel, created in Francis’s final months, and ordered a review of future efforts.

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Pope Francis meets with families of Hamas hostages, marks 6-month anniversary

As part of his diplomatic efforts, Francis also met last November with a group of Palestinians affected by the conflict.

APRIL 10, 2024ByTHE MEDIA LINE STAFF
Pope Francis holds the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 8, 2023.

Pope Francis calls for Gaza ceasefire in Easter address

Francis has repeatedly deplored the death and destruction in the Gaza war.

MARCH 31, 2024ByREUTERS
Pope Francis looks on from a balcony, on the day he delivers his "Urbi et Orbi" (To the city and the world) message at St. Peter's Square, on Easter Sunday, at the Vatican March 31, 2024.

Pope leads Good Friday service ahead of Colosseum procession

In previous years, Francis would start it prostrating himself on the marble floor of the basilica, but his physical condition no longer allows him to do so.

MARCH 29, 2024ByREUTERS
Pope Francis presides over the Good Friday Passion of the Lord service in Saint Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, March 29, 2024.

Pope expels disgraced former bishop, says Belgian church

Pope expels Belgian bishop Vangheluwe over sexual abuse admission. Belgian church condemns delayed action

MARCH 21, 2024ByREUTERS
Greece's Orthodox Church, Ieronymos II and Bishop Brian Farrell, Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, attend a ceremony to mark the return of three Parthenon fragments from the Vatican, at the Parthenon Gallery of the Acropolis Museum, in Athens, Greece March 24, 2023.

'War is always a defeat': Pope calls to end wars in Gaza, Ukraine

"We should never forget that war is always a defeat," Pope Francis said.

MARCH 20, 2024ByREUTERS
Pope Francis reacts during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 20, 2024.

Pope Francis calls for studies into 'ugly' gender theory

"I have asked that studies be carried out into this ugly ideology of our times, which cancels out the differences and makes everything the same," the pope said.

MARCH 1, 2024ByREUTERS
Pope Francis holds a weekly general audience in Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, August 30, 2023.

First female Argentine saint brings together Pope Francis and Milei

Milei, a maverick right-wing libertarian, in the past called Francis an "imbecile," a "son-of-a-bitch preaching communism" and the devil's man on earth.

FEBRUARY 11, 2024ByREUTERS
Argentina's President Javier Milei looks on during a visit to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Jerusalem, February 7, 2024.

Pope condemns anti-Judaism, antisemitism amid new wave of attacks against Jews

In his letter, the pope also called, once again, for the release of those hostages still being held by Hamas.

FEBRUARY 3, 2024ByREUTERS
Pope Francis reacts as he attends a meeting at Palais du Pharo, on the occasion of the Mediterranean Meetings (MED 2023), in Marseille, France, September 23, 2023.

Pope says Africans are 'special case' when it comes to LGBT blessings

Blessings were allowed last month in a document called Fiducia Supplicans (Supplicating Trust), which has caused widespread debate in the Catholic Church.

JANUARY 29, 2024ByREUTERS
Pope Francis leads the weekly general audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, October 11, 2023.

Sara Netanyahu appeals to Pope Francis to help free Gaza hostages

Netanyahu sent a letter to the Pope on Sunday after appealing to 33 female leaders worldwide, including First Lady Jill Biden, in previous weeks.

DECEMBER 24, 2023ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Sara Netanyahu, Wife of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2020.