The letter highlights the escalating humanitarian crisis in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and calls for ...

Tributes came from around the globe, offering condolences to the world’s Catholics and praising the pontiff’s commitment to ...

The death of Francis, who was one of the oldest popes in the church’s history, came weeks after he was discharged from a Rome ...

Francis signaled a very different tone for the papacy, stressing humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset by scandal ...

Pope Francis died Monday morning at the age of 88, according to Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo. "At 7:35 this ...

Mourners, some in tears, gathered in St. Peter’s Square to celebrate the first Latin American pontiff. The Vatican said that the pope had died at age 88 after a stroke.

Pope Francis was the first Latin American pontiff to lead the Roman Catholic Church after taking over from Pope Benedict XVI ...