Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

He will go down in history as the 'pope for the marginalized,' a Catholic leader in Naples, said of Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis, 88, died weeks after he was discharged from the hospital following a lengthy battle with double pneumonia and ...

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I'm not a Catholic who follows the Vatican's commands unquestioned. But Pope Francis worked hard to make the church more ...

Simple words and gentle gestures -- that is how Long Islanders remember Pope Francis, a pontiff they loved and respected.

By the time Francis took over as leader of the Catholic Church in 2013, meetings between the president and the pontiff had ...

Pope Francis’ transformative vision for the American church made it more open, but also energized conservative resistance ...

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate ...

During Francis’ time as pope, he spoke on a wide array of controversial and political issues, including immigration, same-sex ...

His critics were fellow clergy as well as elected officials in the ascendant wing of the American Catholic political realm.

On March 13, 2013, Francis succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, who was the first pope to retire in six centuries. Francis became the ...