The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing ...

Tributes to Pope Francis instantly poured in from around the world from presidents to people of all walks of like on Monday ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

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

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in ...

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

Pope Francis, who died on Monday, had an informal, lighthearted speaking style, and sometimes he even created words in a ...

Indonesia and China said Monday they committed to maritime cooperation promoting safety and security in the South China Sea, ...

As Big Tech kicks off its quarterly earnings season this week, the industry’s bellwether companies have been thrust into a ...

Closing arguments are scheduled Monday afternoon at the Arizona trial for Lori Vallow Daybell, the Idaho woman with doomsday ...

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart — one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history — ...