Cardinals created by Pope John Paul II

 Pope Francis called on Monday for all nations to support dialogue to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula and to work for a legally binding ban on nuclear weapons, reported Reuters. 

Pope Francis on Dec. 25 called for peace in Jerusalem in his traditional Christmas address and highlighted the plight of children scarred by conflict, after urging the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics not to ignore migrants.

Pope Francis got the keys to a fancy new Lamborghini on yesterday - but he won’t be tooling around the Vatican gardens in it.

Pope Francis addressed the believers as well as bishops, priests and pilgrims calling for putting away smartphones in their pockets and no longer photograph during a liturgy, which he said was "not a spectacle," AFP reports.

Pope Francis acknowledged that he had fallen asleep as he prayed. He said, however, that this is one of the many ways to honor God's name, the press reported.

"I, too, when I pray, sometimes fall asleep," the Pope said with a smile in an interview with Italian Catholic television Tu Wu 2000.

Pope Francis once underwent psychoanalysis with a Jewish analyst, according to a new book-length interview of the pontiff conducted by a French academic.

Francis said that he saw the psychoanalyst weekly for about six months when he was 42 years old.

It’s unclear why the pope specified the analyst’s religion. The full English-language text of the anecdote is not yet available.

Pope Francis on Sunday prayed that God will liberate the world from the "inhuman violence" of terrorism, in the wake of incidents over the past week in Burkina Faso, Barcelona and Finland that left a total of 34 people dead. The pontiff has long condemned terrorism, especially when it's religiously-inspired, insisting that it's "blasphemy" to kill in the name of God.

Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell arrived back in Australia on July 10 ahead of a court appearance later this month over historical sex abuse charges.

The 76-year-old, a top advisor to Pope Francis, touched down in Sydney and was met by security before being whisked away in a waiting car.  

Another gay orgy has been unearthed in the Vatican. The Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano reports that Vatican police discovered the sex party in the apartment of a high-ranking aid.

Australia's highest-ranking Roman Catholic clergyman, Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell, has been charged by Australian police over sex allegations from "multiple complainants."

"Cardinal Pell is facing multiple charges in respect of historic sexual offences," Victoria state police deputy commissioner Shane Patton told the media in Melbourne on Thursday.