Jorge Mario Bergoglio became a pope of many firsts: the first modern pope from outside Europe, the first whose papal name ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

David French: I’m David French. I’m an Opinion columnist at The Times, where I write about law, politics and religion. I’m ...

Key quotes from Pope Francis's papacy: - Humility - "Pray for me" - pronounced at the end of every speech, because, he once ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died, the Vatican said in a video statement ...

His followers saw him as symbolizing the church's open arms. His critics saw him as bending timeless church doctrines.

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That was a special experience. When religious art comes from an actual church or abbey, it sems to have somehow soaked up the passionate attentions of the faithful. All those who knelt before it leave ...

Matthew McConaughey felt as if a "safety net had gone" when his father died. The 55-year-old actor lost his dad James when he suffered a fatal heart attack in 1992 at the age of 63, and reflected in a ...

Hermesch turned himself in over the death of Father Raj "Arul" Carasala of the Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Seneca, Kansas, on April 3. As reported by KSNT, he had written several ...