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.

What a humbling feeling it was to have the leader of the Roman Catholic Church ask you to pray for him. While it shocked us in the moment, perhaps it should not have. Pope Francis lived a life rooted ...

The light of Easter impels us to break down the barriers that create division,” proclaimed Pope Francis in his Easter sermon, ...

Pope Francis was the first pope to visit Iraq, a historic event still remembered by Chaldeans in metro Detroit who mourned ...

Pope Francis has died at the age of 88. His last public appearance was on Easter Sunday during which he blessed thousands of ...

In a historic moment characterized by autocrats and would-be autocrats, Francis was the antithesis of a strongman.

Easter has been described as the “feast of feasts,” which celebrates the solemnity of Jesus-becoming-Christ or the resurrection. It is the original or first feast that entered the Christian liturgical ...

Ideas about resurrection had been developing for centuries before Jesus’ life, but his followers took them in new directions.