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

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

As the first Latin American and non-European pope in more than 1,000 years, Pope Francis's presence as the head of one of the ...

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

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 ...

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

Following the death of Pope Francis on Monday, cardinals will convene in Vatican City to elect a successor. Here are a few ...

ATLANTA — Catholic civil rights group, the Catholic League, has written to a letter to the House Ethics Committee saying that ...

In the weeks that follow the passing of a pontiff, the city of Rome, and the Vatican in particular, comes alive with ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” ...

People across the world are remembering the legacy of Pope Francis, who died Monday at 88 years old after a stroke and heart ...

The worldwide attention on the death of Pope Francis and the process to select a new pontiff comes as no surprise to the Very ...