VATICAN CITY (AP) - Cardinals gathered Tuesday at the Vatican to begin scheduling Pope Francis’ funeral and burial, planning ...

"At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the house of the Father," the Vatican announced on Monday.

Francis, who emerged from his convalescence on Easter Sunday to bless the thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, died on ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

When Francis became the first Latin American pope in 2013, many hoped he would reverse the Roman Catholic Church’s decline in ...