For college students like me, Pope Francis was the first pope we have vivid, lived memories of, as college Seniors were ...

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Though presidents and princes attended the Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday, prisoners and migrants welcomed Francis’ ...

Popes are usually buried within Vatican City, beneath St. Peter’s Basilica. But Francis will be the first pontiff in more ...

Dozens of heads of state attended the funeral service for Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, at St. Peter’s Square today. Follow here for the latest.

Here is the English translation of the homily given in Italian by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of ...

The late pontiff sought to bring the Catholic Church closer to the people and break with tradition through symbolic gestures ...

On the morning of the Resurrection, Mary Magdalene and other women were the first to arrive at the tomb and the first to witness the risen Christ (see John 20:11-18 and Matthew 28:1-10 ).