Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta. A ...

Each year Pope Francis shared monthly prayer themes. His prayer for April 2025 was particularly pointed for the modern world: ...

Father Gabriel Romanelli, the pastor of Holy Family Parish in Gaza, summed up Pope Francis’ last call on Saturday night, ...

After a time of silence, all join in prayers of intercession, or in one of the litanies or other prayers. All then join hands for the Lord's Prayer: Our Father.

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

A conclave to choose a new pope normally takes place 15 to 20 days after the death of a pontiff, meaning this conclave should ...

Pope Francis' beloved soccer club in his native Buenos Aires, San Lorenzo, celebrated a Mass late Wednesday dedicated to its ...

In a community room at the Holy Family School in Orange, at least 20 women gather each Tuesday, spreading colorful beads and strings among themselves to make rosaries that are later shared ...

Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church ... us please ring the bells of our churches and call our people to prayer for the eternal repose of the Holy Father Pope Francis who passed ...

The funeral for Francis, the first first Latin American pontiff, is set for 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Peter's Square in The ...

Christians from Gaza's only Catholic ... Father Romanelli said the Pope last called on Saturday and "told us 'thank you... for all that we made here'.". "In the same time, he asked [for] prayer ...

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a devastating war ...