A change in popes is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the ...

His Holiness died Monday after suffering a stroke that led to irreversible heart failure following a weeks-long ...

The world is mourning Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday aged 88 from a cerebral stroke and subsequent heart failure.

Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the death of one pope and before the election of another. They ...

Francis was more tolerant with another critic, the retired archbishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen. He excoriated the ...

Cardinals were due to meet on Tuesday to plan Pope Francis’ funeral, which leaders from around the world will attend ahead of ...

The Diocese of Sacramento represents one million Catholics in Northern California and they are mourning the loss of Pope ...

Worshippers sang and prayed Monday evening at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Greensboro, praying for the repose of Pope ...

The Vatican published Tuesday a photo and video of Pope Francis in his open coffin, dressed in a red robe with the papal ...

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

Church bells tolled in mourning. Well-wishers flocked into pews. Tributes to Pope Francis poured in from around the world on Monday after the Vatican announced the pontiff’s death at age 88 of a ...

Catholics from around Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire expressed both sorrow and gratitude for the late Pope ...