April 23, the patron saint’s day of Pope Francis, is a holiday at the Vatican and the pope usually celebrated it with acts of ...

Mystery and drama always surround a conclave, but the deeper issue is the mission of the Catholic Church in the modern world.

For centuries, men assuming the top job in the Roman Catholic Church kept their birth names. That changed with Pope John II.

A pope’s death is confirmed by the head of the Vatican’s health department and the cardinal chamberlain of the Holy Roman ...

Let’s begin with the obvious: the Pope has better security than a Bond villain. But what’s perhaps less known—and infinitely ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern ...

Now, as tradition dictates, the late pontiff's signet ring will be destroyed - or defaced, at least - within the walls of the ...

About 200 of the 266 men to hold the title of pope hailed from within the borders of Italy. Here is a look at others, like Pope Francis, who didn't.

In the wake of the death of Pope Francis, people all over the world spoke of what the pontiff meant to them. Rev. Jerry ...

POPE Francis died at 88 on Easter Monday, leaving a sheepfold without a shepherd. At the appointed time, the college of ...

Every pope has his critics. And Pope Francis probably expected that he would face opposition to his reform agenda after ...

He was baptized by one Pope, Paul VI, and another, Benedict XVI, appointed him director of the Vatican newspaper, ...