A funeral will be held on Saturday for the pope, who changed the rules to make such ceremonies simpler than those ...

The death of Pope Francis has impacted travel plans for many members of the religious community who were scheduled to visit ...

Oscar Crespo was watching TV in his native Buenos Aires when he saw the white smoke appearing above the Sistine Chapel at the ...

When Pope Francis visited New York City in 2015, he met and prayed with religious leaders of other faiths to spread a message ...

Monsignor Don Fischer says he had been waiting for a leader like Pope Francis since he studied at the Vatican in the late ...

Despite having the world's fastest-growing Catholic population, odds are against Africa producing the next pontiff.

As news of the pope’s death traveled across the globe, observers fondly remembered a man who bought his own eyeglasses, got ...

Father Romanelli recalled how, over the past 19 months, the Holy Father has maintained constant contact with Gaza.

Pope Francis’s body will be laid out for public view on Wednesday as mourners flock to the Vatican ahead of his funeral. The ...

The cardinals set the funeral for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, to be celebrated by the dean of the College of ...

Pope Francis probably expected that he would face opposition to his reform agenda after Catholics for two generations grew ...

Francis expressed sympathy for the strife of Argentines pulled into poverty as they bore the brunt of Milei’s fiscal shock ...