The Catholic faithful took heart when the pontiff, after two brushes with death, emerged from a hospital and resumed some of ...

Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants.

Whom Greenlanders choose to do business with — economically, politically and socially — will tell us a lot about the coming ...

Following the news that Pope Francis died on Monday, Father Jim Sichko, a priest who serves the Diocese of Lexington, ...

After Pope Francis’s death at the age of 88, the process of electing the next pontiff will begin. Cardinal electors, the vast ...

VATICAN CITY — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: ...

The Argentine has passed away this Monday at the age of 88, and the world mourns the loss of a Pope who revolutionized and adapted the Church to modern times. Pope Francis passed away this Monday ...

This is how the Archbishop of Philadelphia bid farewell to Pope Francis, who appointed him to this responsibility.

P ope Francis, the reform-minded Roman Catholic leader who guided the church through an era of crisis, died Monday, April 21, ...

The pope's death comes one day after Francis, 88, greeted Easter Sunday crowds in his popemobile. He had battled a ...

The images on these pages document just a few ... Clothing like hers is bought in town and often supplied by missionaries, who frown upon grass skirts. Grass, however, can be easily replaced ...

PAMPANGA, Philippines — Holy Angel University Center for Kapampangan Studies' exhibition on Felipe Sonsong, a Filipino missionary alongside Saint Pedro Calungsod, who is also being pushed for ...