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

Francis advocated for the powerless, for those who have so little and yet are villainized by people in positions of authority ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

Many are claiming Pope Francis as an ideological ally in the wake of his death. But he defied easy political categorization.

The late Pope Francis, who passed away Monday morning, didn’t apologize for defending the long-held social positions of the ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern ...

Rather than singling out abortion as an isolated policy topic — something to be settled with an election or a legal ruling — ...

They got more of a disrupter in Pope Francis than many had bargained for. After Francis’ stormy 12-year pontificate, some ...

He was a populist leader, often referred to as the "People's Pope." As pontiff, Francis, who died Monday at age 88, sought to ...

When Francis became the first Latin American pope in 2013, many hoped he would reverse the Roman Catholic Church’s decline in ...

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