VATICAN—Pope Francis called drug traffickers criminals, murderers, and “traffickers of death” during his general audience on Wednesday.

ROME—Pope Francis called the destruction of the environment “an offense against God” in a message given to the participants in the UN climate summit last week.

VATICAN—Pope Francis opened the Synod on Synodality’s three-week assembly last Wednesday with a call to remember that the Church exists to bring Jesus to the world and should face today’s challenges with a gaze fixed on God rather than “political calcu...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE—In his in-flight news conference returning from Mongolia on Monday, Pope Francis outlined his vision for the upcoming synodal assembly in October, which he said should be a prayerful exercise in dialogue free from ideology, not ...