High court hears Maryland parents' case seeking an opt-out of school district requirement their children participate in ...

President Donald Trump plans to attend Pope Francis' funeral and directed US flags be flown at half-staff in the late pontiff ...

The news of Pope Francis' passing on Easter Monday April 21 has sent ripples of grief and gratitude throughout the world, ...

Pope Francis "inspired Catholics and all people of good will to live as Christ did," said Kerry Alys Robinson, who is ...

From the moment of his election, Pope Francis made clear from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica that his first mandate was ...

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires made history with his election on March 13, 2013, becoming the first Argentine ...

The funeral Mass of Pope Francis will be celebrated April 26 in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced. Cardinal Giovanni ...

Pope Francis' funeral rites, like those for any pope or any Christian, are meant to "reinforce the hope and witness to the ...

Pope Francis died April 21 after suffering a stroke and heart failure, said the director of Vatican City State's department ...

Cardinals already present in Rome and those who were able to get to the city after Pope Francis' death April 21 held their ...

Pope Francis is brought on stage in St. Peter’s Square by his nurse, Massimiliano Strappetti, at the end of the closing Mass ...

Issues of extreme poverty, homelessness, mental illness, forced migration, climate change and war inspired Pope Francis “to call for a more merciful, charitable, just and other-centered world,” said ...