One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

Pope Francis, who chose his papal name after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

The funeral drew world leaders, including President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who had a talk in the ...

I loved Pope Francis. He accepted the difficult job of bishop of Rome. He didn’t make it look easy. St. John Paul II spent ...

I received a call from the great beyond. Like so many in America, I woke up Monday morning to the news of the death of Pope ...

The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic order founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola committed to spirituality and ...

The office of President Zelensky shared a picture of Trump and Zelensky engaged in conversation at St. Peter’s Basilica.

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and ...

Kielce Gussie, a U.S. journalist who works for Vatican News, gave the first reading at the funeral of Pope Francis.

He was a very charismatic pope, very human, very kind, above all very human,” said Miguel Vaca, a pilgrim from Peru. “It is a ...

Pope Francis was laid to rest Saturday in Rome, with more than 250,000 people -- including President Donald Trump -- mourning ...

A bout 250,000 people attended the funeral service for Pope Francis on Saturday morning in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, ...