Baltimore Archbishop William Lori encouraged area parishioners to learn from Pope Francis’ legacy by embodying light and hope ...

Catholics across the Southland and around the world Monday were mourning the death of Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff and leader of the Catholic Church. Francis, the Bishop of Rome, ...

Fr. Tommy Conway of Hattiesburg recalled being in Rome shortly after the Pope Francis’ election in 2013. Conway said the man ...

The death of Francis was announced by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Irish-born Vatican camerlengo, a position that will be ...

The Catholic faithful took heart when the pontiff, after two brushes with death, emerged from a hospital and resumed some of ...

Pope Francis made a lasting impression on John Graveline when Graveline and his wife, Wendy, were in attendance to hear the ...

Papal funerals used to be elaborate affairs. As Pope Francis has mandated, here are the steps that the simplified ritual will ...

Leaders from Houston, Harris County and Texas have shared statements honoring Pope Francis and his legacy. Houston-area ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Easter Monday after a stroke and cardiac ...

Pope Francis stipulated that he be laid to rest at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major, where six other popes are buried.

Saint Mary's Basilica in Phoenix is joining Catholic churches around the world in mourning Pope Francis, who died of a stroke and subsequent heart failure on April 20. His death at age 88 followed a ...

After the Vatican announced that Pope Francis, the first non-European head of the Roman Catholic Church in more than a ...