One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

Pope Francis, who chose his papal name after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

The funeral drew world leaders, including President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who had a talk in the ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

Pope Francis, leader of Roman Catholic Church for 12 years, died Monday morning at the age of 88. Here's what to know about ...

Vatican City • In a solemn and majestic funeral on the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday ...

The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic order founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola committed to spirituality and ...

The office of President Zelensky shared a picture of Trump and Zelensky engaged in conversation at St. Peter’s Basilica.

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and ...

He was a very charismatic pope, very human, very kind, above all very human,” said Miguel Vaca, a pilgrim from Peru. “It is a ...

During the Francis papacy, the role of women in the church emerged as a pressing priority, with Catholics across the globe ...

The farewell to Francis brought together many figures in domestic and international politics, and included a high-profile ...