As Jorge Mario Bergoglio prepared to assume the papacy, he chose a new name: Francis. That choice was a tribute to St.

Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome dedicated to the Virgin Mary ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican releases first images of Pope Francis, showing him in his casket with the Vatican secretary ...

When Pope Francis died the world lost not only the leader of the Catholic Church but also the first pontiff in history to take a stance on climate change.

This dramatized documentary certainly answers your questions and more as it recreates the notorious Auschwitz concentration ...

Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter’s Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to ...

President Donald Trump attended Easter services in Palm Beach three of four years' of his first presidency. He missed 2020 ...

The life of Pope Francis, the first Latin American and first Jesuit to serve as the Roman Catholic Church’s pontiff, lasted ...

Less than a day after giving the Easter blessing to a crowd assembled outside a balcony in the Vatican, the news of Pope ...

Bishop Salvatore Matano from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester released a statement Monday morning following the death ...

World leaders, including Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama, mourn Pope Francis, highlighting his compassion and ...

Pope Francis, whose ministry was shaped in the barrios of Buenos Aires, had a genius for the punchy and memorable turn of ...