The pontiff's funeral is scheduled to begin on Saturday, April 26, according to the Vatican. Francis' death on Monday came ...

An Irish-born American cardinal was entrusted by Pope Francis to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy ...

Good Catholics were supposed to embrace gay people but not their gayness. That’s hardly the arithmetic of equality.

The Catholic Church needs to elect a young pope in its next conclave in order to inspire new vocations to the priesthood.

The next pope will take over a Roman Catholic Church with dwindling membership in Europe, North America and Latin America, ...

He grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Dublin, and now Kevin Farrell is set to preside over the election of the new ...

Pope Francis will be remembered by many in Billings and around the world for his kindness and compassion toward humanity. He championed the poor, embraced marginalized communities such as migrants and ...

Here are some cardinals who are being talked about as "papabili" to succeed Pope Francis, whose death at the age of 88 was announced by the Vatican on Monday ...

Filipino artists created works of art in memory of Pope Francis to honor the beloved supreme pontiff who passed away on ...

Malawi on Monday joined the global community in mourning head of the Catholic Church Pope Francis who died in the Vatican ...

A new pope does not swoop in and openly set about undoing the legacy of another. But a lot can change as far as style, ...

He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing ...