Catholic Church mourns, buries Pope Francis – PHOTOS Faithful pay their respect to the late Pope Francis who will lie in state inside St. Peter's Basilica until Friday, at the Vatican, Thursday ...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

A Vatican opinion released shortly before Pope Francis died advises against public church listings of clergy members deemed ...

An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, killing three people and wounding ...

The Catholic Church is bigger than one single pope, but talk of Francis’ legacy lingers as the church finds itself at a crossroads. It is also something the next pope will have to contend with.

First, those who embrace Pope Francis’ wide-ranging, modernising changes in the Catholic church. The reform-minded pope made it possible to advance a new church culture that respected the voice ...

Through Pope Francis and “Laudato Si’,” I began to reconcile with a church I had held at arm’s length for so long.

Pope Francis led the Catholic Church from March 2013 until his death, after a papal conclave elected him to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned as pope in February 2013. A member of the Jesuit ...

Pope Leo XIV will declare John Henry Newman a “doctor” of the church, bestowing one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors ...

Francis brought the popular archbishop of Manila to Rome to head the Vatican’s missionary evangelization office, which serves the needs of the Catholic Church in much of Asia and Africa.

He protected the Roman Catholic Church’s doctrine — even if he did so in his own style. That is evident in one of Francis’ last writings, which was provided to The New York Times and has not ...