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

Bishop Larry Sullivan delivered the sermon at a special commemoration for Pope Francis, hours after the pope was laid to rest ...

With Pope Francis laid to rest, all eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within ...

Cardinals electing Pope Francis's successor will have an easier time than many of their predecessors, who endured spartan ...

Pope Francis's successor will face a litany of challenges, from the place of women and the LGBTQ community in the Catholic ...

For years, traditionalists raged at Pope Francis's liberal approach. The question now is whether his successor will walk the ...

A non-European pope would make sense, given that Catholicism is growing in Africa and Asia, while church attendance is ...

Pope Francis has been laid to rest, after a day that brought 250,000 together in a packed St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, and countless more Catholics around the world also prayed for the late ...

Catholics across Texas and around the world mourned Pope Francis this weekend. In Rome, around 250,000 people gathered in Saint Peter's Square for his funeral. The mass emphasized his service to the ...

Pope Francis died on Monday morning, according to the Vatican. He was 88 years old and held the papacy for 12 years.

The Vatican long ago had offered to help facilitate peace talks and Francis had regularly called for peace and dialogue from ...