Pope Francis died of a stroke, the Vatican said on Monday evening, hours after announcing the pontiff's death. Francis passed ...

Pope Francis was the first pope from the Americas, the first Jesuit pontiff and the first to take the name of Francis, after ...

Pope Francis, spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, has died in Rome aged 88, the Vatican announces.

Christians also use informal prayers, which are personal and allow individuals to connect with God in their own words. Catholics may also say the Angelus, which is a series of short meditations ...

urged Catholics Sunday to mark Lent as a "time of healing" as he missed his seventh Angelus prayer. The 88-year-old head of the Catholic Church left Rome's Gemelli hospital last Sunday after five ...