The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, which includes the entire state of Maine, announced that Bishop James Ruggieri will ...

Several cities and countries — including New York City, the United Kingdom, and Australia — have ordered flags to be lowered ...

The death of Pope Francis at the age of 88 has sent ripples of sorrow through the Catholic community at the University of Alabama, where stud ...

Pope Francis's funeral will be held on Saturday, the Vatican announced, as world leaders from US President Donald Trump to ...

They grew up with Pope Francis. Berks Catholic High School students who had attended elementary schools like Holy Guardian ...

The Vatican announced Francis, the first leader of the Catholic church from outside Europe for over a thousand years, died ...

He promoted equity and an end to poverty and suffering across the globe,' writes a Times reader about Pope Francis. 'And ...

The cardinals set the funeral for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, to be celebrated by the dean of the College of ...

In Egypt, the Council of Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops, headed by Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac of Alexandria for Coptic ...

Roman Catholic cardinals gathered Tuesday in Vatican City to prepare for the Saturday funeral of Pope Francis.

The pope's body will lie in state at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome starting April 23 and mourners can pay respects ahead of ...

He peppered his homilies, talks and even encyclicals with literary references from Dostoyevsky, Proust, Hopkins, Dante and ...