Advent is a time of waiting and expectation, Pope Francis said Sunday, but this season also requires a “journey of conversion.”

Pope Francis celebrated the feast of the Immaculate Conception in the traditional Roman way.

For the first time St. Peter's square hosts a nativity entirely sculted out of sand.

Responding to the deaths of tens of thousands of children from AIDS and AIDS-related illnesses, the Vatican brought together physicians and representatives of drug companies and humanitarian agencies...