The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to choose the new pope. Here's what happens next.

On the night of his election on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis told the assembled faithful from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica that “tomorrow I wish to go and pray to the Madonna.” And so he did, ...

Pope Francis failed a key moral test in his failure to identify and condemn Russia's war on Ukraine and China's Uyghur ...

Pope Francis’ final days weren’t wasted. They were a homily without words — on how to die with Jesus, love like Jesus, and ...

For Catholics, Pope Francis was (and is) a kind of Rorschach test of where one thought the church should go in this century ...

In Egypt, the Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops, headed by Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac of Alexandria for Coptic ...

The Vatican — with its politics, its pageantry and its power — has long been a favorite subject for artists and thinkers.

STEUBENVILLE — News from the Vatican interrupted the stillness of Easter Monday, announcing the death of Pope Francis at 88 ...

The Vatican announced April 21, Monday that the canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis has been postponed following the death ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, closing a 12-year papacy marked by progressive reforms and sharp opposition from conservative elements within the Catholic Church, writes WALE AKINSELUREIf there’s ...

Pope Francis, who rose from janitor to the Catholic Church’s most powerful leader by proving equally at ease with ...