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

Hundreds of “Missionaries of Mercy” — priests with ... The Holy Father expressed his heartfelt thanks to all who reflect the “image of the Savior” and work as “instruments of healing.” ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Photo: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images The statue of Dano-Norwegian Lutheran missionary Hans Egede is silhouetted during a partial solar eclipse on March 29 in Nuuk, Greenland. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty ...

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, ...

In Greenlandic, its name is Kalaallit Nunaat. Danish-Norwegian missionary Hans Egede established a settlement in what's now Nuuk, Greenland's capital, in 1721. Over the centuries, Denmark's ...

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 ...