The Vatican announced Francis, the first leader of the Catholic church from outside Europe for over a thousand years, died ...

The cardinals set the funeral for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, to be celebrated by the dean of the College of ...

U.S. flags typically fly at half-staff in the wake of national tragedies or after deaths of government officials, military ...

Roman Catholic cardinals gathered Tuesday in Vatican City to prepare for the Saturday funeral of Pope Francis.

Pope Francis died Monday; here are the front runners for the Vatican leadership, and what they've said about Jews, Israel and ...

On this note, Francis pointed to the role of grandparents in society, emphasizing their role in promoting the 'balanced ...

US President Donald Trump, who clashed repeatedly with the pope about immigration, said he and his wife would attend.

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...

Although Pope Francis simplified the papal funeral rites in a move of typical modesty, Saturday’s ceremony will still be full ...

Pope Francis preached tolerance for others, sometimes to the point of breaking with Catholic Church orthodoxy and surprising ...

By Wednesday night, it remained unclear whether President Museveni would join dozens of other world leaders attending Pope ...

Navarrosa, who is currently writing his thesis on the pope’s 2016 encyclical 'Amoris Laetitia,' recalls meeting Francis in ...