The Vatican said in a statement later Monday that Francis died of a stroke that put him into a coma and led to irreversible ...

More than two months before he died, Pope Francis reflected on death and old age in a preface for an upcoming book — ahead of ...

In Luke 16:19-31 is another great argument against us sleeping or being at rest. Luke 16:22 And it came to pass, that the ...

In the hours following his death, many Catholics reflected on the words in his final Easter urbi et orbi blessing, which had ...

This is why I said earlier that these are pages born “from the thought and the affection” of Cardinal Scola: not only from thought, but also from the emotional dimension, which is the one to which ...

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

Cardinal Blase Cupich and Catholics across the Chicago area are remembering the late Pope Francis for his everyman humility ...

By Joel Hodge and Antonia PizzeyPope Francis has died on Easter Monday, aged 88, the Vatican announced. The head of the Catholic Church had recently survived being hospitalised with a serious bout of ...

"We're going to miss him. He was a great pope and a great leader," Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, John Wester said.

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Pope Francis brought a breath of fresh air into a 2,000-year-old institution that had seen its influence wane during the ...