Catholic churches across Western North Carolina will hold prayer events April 21 following the death of Pope Francis.

Bishop Timothy L. Doherty of the Lafayette Diocese urged for thoughtful remembrance of Pope Francis's life and legacy.

Pope Francis died at 88 Monday morning, the Vatican announced in a statement on X, just after his appearance in St. Peter’s ...

Pope Francis, remembered as a beacon of hope and advocate for human dignity, died at age 88. Erie Catholic Bishop Lawrence Persico and other local Catholics mourned the pope's passing and reflected on ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name ...

Even the moment of the formal verification of the pope’s death takes place in the context of a prayer service “at home” in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae where he lived. The Vatican said that ...

Lord Jesus, present in the most blessed sacrament, and living perpetually among us through your priests, grant that the words of your priests may be only your words, that their gestures be only ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic Church ... In the 1920's and 30's four bishops of this rite were reunited with Rome, and many members ...