While Catholic faithful gathered Monday at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City to mourn the death of Pope Francis, several ...

VATICAN CITY, Holy See (AFP) — Pope Francis died on Monday aged 88, prompting mourning across the Christian world for the ...

VATICAN CITY, Holy See (AFP) — His predecessor loved Mozart, but Pope Francis’s passion was football — for him “the most ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday after suffering a stroke and cardiac arrest, the Vatican said, ending an often turbulent reign in which he ...

This is Latin for “having had mercy and choosing him” — a phrase that Francis chose as his motto when he was elevated to ...

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

Pope Francis died of a stroke on Monday, April 21, 2025, at the Vatican aged 88. READ: LIVE UPDATES: Pope Francis dies at age ...

Upon his election to the papacy, Pope Francis became the first pontiff to hail from Latin America. His impact, though, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” ...

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

Every pope has his critics. And Pope Francis probably expected he would face opposition to his radical reform agenda after ...

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