The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just ...

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

Pope Francis died Monday morning at the age of 88, according to Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo. "At 7:35 this ...

The first Latin American pope, known for speaking out against social injustice, leaves behind a complicated legacy.

At a time when nationalism, a concept long held in contempt by Francis, is surging again in the West, the church now finds ...

Elected officials in Michigan joined those around the world mourning the death of Pope Francis, the Bishop of Rome who led the Catholic Church for 12 years before his passing April 21. Francis, who ...

Rachel Bulman of Lakeland, a Catholic author and speaker, said it was "beautiful" that Pope Francis participated in a final Easter before his death.

When daily newspapers and mainline Protestant denominations and Elks Lodges fade into irrelevance, when sit-down restaurants ...

Their critics call them MAGA Catholics. Others label them as traditionalists — even fundamentalists. What is certain is that conservative or “faithful” Catholics, as they often prefer to be known, ...

Catholics from around Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire expressed both sorrow and gratitude for the late Pope ...

With some 20,000 Ukrainian children forcibly deported to Russia, we investigate the woman Putin put in charge of the ...