Predicting the next pope can be a notoriously secretive and unpredictable exercise. An old Italian saying even ...

The Congregational United Church of Christ supported the Coral Gables community through a double-punch of economic depression ...

Pope Francis is lying in state in St Peter's Basilica, where tens of thousands of mourners will file past his open casket ...

Maps, graphics explain relatively humble funeral for Pope Francis: public viewing, casket and non-traditional burial site ...

Leaders of faith-based institutions are backing a bill that would give them a pass from local regulations that make it hard ...

Russia has resumed its brutal aerial assault attack on Ukraine after claiming it ‘strictly observed’ Easter ceasefire ...

(James Hill | The New York Times) Bishops and cardinals during the funeral service of Pope Benedict XVI at St. Peter's ...

Throughout his pontificate, Francis spoke out for the rights of refugees and criticised countries that shunned migrants. He visited the Greek island of Lesbos and brought a dozen refugees to Italy on ...

The pope and the president remade the Catholic church and American politics in their outsider images, but their relationship ...

As the Catholic Church charts its third millennium, the synod symbolizes its attempts to discern the path ahead. Francis sought balance between tradition and innovation, the local and the universal.

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of which direction the Roman ...

Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died on Monday ...