Hong Kong’s outspoken Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen has been allowed to leave the southern Chinese city to attend Pope ...

Around the world, his death is being mourned. Former U.S. President Barack Obama called himself a “great admirer” of Pope Francis. Joseph Ciancaglini, a lifelong Baltimore-born Catholic and ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and ...

Catholics and non-Catholics honor Pope Francis's life at a special Mass, celebrating his legacy and mourning his passing. His ...

As the world mourns the death of Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic College of Cardinals is preparing to begin the sacred ...

Ciro Fusco/EPA-EFE via Shutterstock Cardinal Kevin Joseph Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, presides over the entombment of the late Pope Francis in the Basilica of Santa Maria ...

Others said they hoped that Francis’ era of emphasizing charity and pastoral work over church doctrine was over. The Rev. Joseph Jaros, of the Czech Republic, said he agreed with Francis that ...

Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of the Newark Archdiocese ... a friend and confidant of the late Pope Francis, could wield influence at the Conclave of Cardinals that will pick Francis' successor.

The U.S. cardinals appointed by Francis were Blase Cupich of Chicago, Kevin Farrell who leads the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life, Joseph Tobin of Newark, Wilton Gregory who ...

But Francis was a runner-up that year in the conclave that elected German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to become Pope Benedict XVI. His turn came eight years later, after Benedict’s abrupt resignation.

President Trump and former President Joseph R. Biden Jr., along with the ... the alphabet. At Francis’ open-air funeral Mass in St. Peter’s Square, members of foreign delegations are divided ...