From his very first appearance greeting crowds in St Peter’s Square in Rome on March 13 2013, Pope Francis made warmth, good ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

Following the service in St Peter’s Square, which drew crowds of around 250,000, Francis was buried during a private ceremony ...

VATICAN CITY — Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary Major Basilica a day after he was bade farewell by the powerful ...

The College of Cardinals Francis created reflects the world more than the Catholic Church, or rather, it reflects her ...

People lined up from the early hours of Sunday for a farewell to Pope Francis at his simple tomb in the Papal Basilica of ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, better known as Pope Francis, called on the Catholic conscience more than any pope since John XXIII.

He spent the rest of his pontificate going back out to those peripheries, traveling to more than 65 nations, preferring those that were poor, scarred by war, marginalized and forgotten. Then the ...

Approximately 250,000 people followed the mass from the square or nearby on giant screens. The rest lined the route of the ...

I was intrigued and inquisitive to learn who the Aga Khan was and what importance he served. Cultural and spiritual leaders ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals in meetings ahead of the start of a secret conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis are ...

With Pope Francis laid to rest, all eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within ...