VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis died Monday morning, Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced. “At 7:35 ...

The Vatican said the Catholic leader, who suffered from chronic lung disease and recently spent 38 days in the hospital for a ...

The Vatican says cause of Pope Francis' death was a cerebral stroke that led to a coma and irreversible heart failure.

When the Rev. Kevin Miller greets people with a hug, an abrazo to Spanish speakers in his parish at St. Gabriel’s R.C. Church ...

Three churches off East 10th Street — two historically Black, one historically Mexican — are weighing their options as ...

His critics were fellow clergy as well as elected officials in the ascendant wing of the American Catholic political realm.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

Pope Francis has died at age 88. The first Latin American pontiff charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the ...

From Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority, to East Timor with the highest per capita Catholic population, ...

But Francis was a much more complex character, with a great fondness for personal authority alongside more participative ...

Catholics around the world will be watching to see whether his successor upholds Francis’ progressive legacy or tacks toward ...

Pope Francis dies aged 88 after double pneumonia battle - Pope Francis spent 12 years at the helm of the Catholic Church ...