Call me Francis,” he declared. The name was from Francis of Assisi (1181–1226), patron saint of the environment, animals, and birds; known for his piety and service to society, and called the ‘Green ...

During his homily, Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, said individuals and the church must follow in the footsteps ...

Pope Francis, controversial head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and LGBTQ ally, died early on Easter Monday from a cerebral hemorrhage.

Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

Easter Sunday, the day before he died, Pope Francis, 88, had a blitzkrieg meeting with JD Vance, 40, at the reception room of the Vatican hotel where the pontiff lives.

For many Catholics older than me, Francis represented a cultural shift from previous pontificates. As a Gen-Z Catholic, ...

This dynamic interplay between God’s will in all its perfection and our fallible human capacities for discernment is one ...

As thousands of mourners pour into St. Peter's Basilica to say their final goodbyes to Pope Francis, a memorial Mass expected to draw a large crowd will take place Wednesday morning at Chicago's Holy ...

Jesus appears to his disciples in Jerusalem. The disciples are startled and terrified, thinking that they are seeing a ghost. Jesus gives them the assurance that it is him. It is the risen Lord who ...

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BRITISH cardinals are heading to the Vatican to attend Pope Francis’ funeral and decide on his successor. Three of them are ...

Carla, you’re going to Rome and Sri Lanka.” IT was a simple text from our head of operations at News5, but it landed like ...