President Trump’s presence at the Vatican funeral marks a rare moment of reverence amid a complex relationship with the late ...

Dr. Sergio Alfieri coordinated Francis' five-week hospital treatment for double pneumonia and continued to oversee the pope's ...

Francis' 12-year reign saw small steps advancing women in the church. We may not know for years what the aims of a new papacy will be.

When a pope had the audacity to name himself after St. Francis — a man of peace, simplicity and creation — I began to dream ...

Pope Francis, history's first pontiff from the Global South, has died at age 88 following a monthslong respiratory illness, ...

More than 61,000 people have visited the basilica so far to pay their respects to Pope Francis, who died April 21.

Three hours after the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had died on April 21, the bells of Notre-Dame de Paris, the ...

Pope Francis lived an extraordinary life, rising from a modest family of Italian descent in Argentina, spending considerable ...

It is natural to compare a pope to his predecessors. But many of the comparisons being made now betray an ideological edge ...

"Some say he did not do enough; others criticize him for even meeting with people like me," said one transgender Catholic.

The body of Pope Francis is now lying in state in St. Peter's Basilica. The pontiff’s mortal remains, lying in an open wooden ...

Francis' devotion to San Lorenzo de Almagro isn't just a nostalgic footnote — it's a window into the soul of a pope who knew ...