Italian press, and media worldwide, are speculating that Pope Francis I performed an exorcism on a young man in a wheelchair at the Pentecostal Mass last Sunday.

This week Pope Francis raised eyebrows around the world when he told a group of 800 visiting nuns they must be spiritual mothers and not 'old maids.'

The president of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has apologized to the Catholic Diocese in Pittsburgh who were gravely offended by a female student who dressed up as a “Naked Pope”, while passing out condoms at the annual art school parade.

Emily Mulcahy from Cobh and Edmond Roche from Fermoy, Co Cork were both part of a group of 44 individuals from around the world personally confirmed by Pope Francis in St. Peters Square. 

Pope Francis is making a reputation for himself as a frugal man who will forgo the luxuries associated with his office. Gone are the signature Prada red shoes, the ermine fur and the fabulous robes and golden thrones of his predecessor Pope Benedict.

Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley has been elected to a powerful Vatican advisory group by Pope Francis.

Before taking his position in the Vatican as Pope Francis I, the Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio recommended three Argentine priests, who were shot by the police in 1976, to be promoted as saints.

We have a new Pope Francis but speculation about who will eventually succeed him started the hour his new papacy was announced.

Pope Francis has called for 'decisive action' against priests who physically and sexually abuse minors.

A survey conducted between March 28th and 31st of 1,001 Americans reveals that Pope Francis has made a huge first impression in the United States. 

Kieran Rooney, a Belfast-born Irish emigrant to Argentina, has shown quick witted enterprise by offering a pilgrimage around the home place of the new Pope that is specially designed for Irish travellers.

Cardinal Sean Brady, Catholic Primate of All-Ireland, has spoken in his Easter message of his visit to the Vatican for the election of Pope Francis.

"The Bible" mini-series producer Roma Downey has described the appointment of Pope Francis as “divine timing”.

The mother is delighted with the new pope. Great man. He gets the bus.He pays his hotel bills. He cracks little jokes. He talks about love. One Direction for the arthritis gang.
 
Very unpopey yet you couldn’t knit yourself a better pope. He’s no George Clooney but at seventy-six, he’s just a spring chicken. The life in your pope is as important as the pope in your life. And!  There’s no faint smell of Nazi off him. No taint of child abuse cover up. Ok. He was at the back of the bus gazing out the window when the junta in Buenos Aires started disappearing some of his Jesuit colleagues but look, when the Smart Boy Wanted sign goes up in the Vatican window you don’t expect to find the perfect candidate.

An elderly Irish cleric is appealing his dismissal from the priesthood directly to Pope Francis and to a top Vatican court.

On Sunday Pope Francis celebrated his first Palm Sunday Mass as pope, telling the young people in the crowd to reflect on the limits of material wealth

Catholic politicians in Britain have called on the new Pope to relax the rules on celibacy for new Latin-rite priests and allow married men to join the priesthood.

Pope Francis I isn’t getting much of a honeymoon period from Irish singer Sinead O’Connor.