Following the death of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church faces a pivotal decision in selecting a new pope — a choice with ...

Easter is the most important festival of the Christian calendar, and so it is unsuprising that most of England’s ...

The death of Pope Francis is being mourned across the world as the College of Cardinals and the Camerlengo prepare for unique ...

"What is the big deal about allowing them to opt out of this," Justice Samuel Alito Jr. asked a lawyer representing ...

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

The funeral Mass for Pope Francis has concluded at St Peter’s Square in the Vatican City. Cortege wound its way through the centre of the Eternal City to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, where ...

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria ...

Anfield is a notoriously tough place to get a result - we, famously, went 73 years without a win there, a run ended in 1985 - ...

Pope Francis, who died on Monday, revised various rites last year, simplifying the funeral rituals to emphasize his role as a mere bishop and allowing for burial outside the Vatican in keeping with ...

Vatican launches mourning rites, prepares conclave VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis, the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and its first Latin American and Jesuit leader, died ...

Pope Francis died at the age of 88. He will be remembered by many as a reformer, the so-called “woke pope” who tried to bring ...