Whether Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who relinquished the rights associated with being a cardinal after he was forced to resign in ...

Pope Francis' solemn funeral Mass will be broadcast and livestreamed by multiple media outlets April 26, providing several ...

Francis' 12-year reign saw small steps advancing women in the church. We may not know for years what the aims of a new papacy ...

Three hours after the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had died on April 21, the bells of Notre-Dame de Paris, the ...

"Some say he did not do enough; others criticize him for even meeting with people like me," said one transgender Catholic.

President Trump’s presence at the Vatican funeral marks a rare moment of reverence amid a complex relationship with the late ...

When a pope had the audacity to name himself after St. Francis — a man of peace, simplicity and creation — I began to dream ...

Pope Francis, history's first pontiff from the Global South, has died at age 88 following a monthslong respiratory illness, ...

More than 61,000 people have visited the basilica so far to pay their respects to Pope Francis, who died April 21.

Pope Francis lived an extraordinary life, rising from a modest family of Italian descent in Argentina, spending considerable ...

It is natural to compare a pope to his predecessors. But many of the comparisons being made now betray an ideological edge ...

The body of Pope Francis is now lying in state in St. Peter's Basilica. The pontiff’s mortal remains, lying in an open wooden ...