Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome and supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church, who worked to instill progressive influences on the ...

Pope Francis, who passed away at 88, had accepted Prime Minister Modi’s invitation to visit India, but the much-anticipated ...

The first Latin American and Jesuit pope was determined to lead a more welcoming, pastoral and merciful Church outward to a ...

Pope Francis was likely to visit India next year but his sojourn could not materialise after he breathed his last on Monday ...

A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” It implies the sacred ...

With the death of Pope Francis, announced by the Vatican on Monday, Roman Catholics around the globe will start speculating ...

The death of Pope Francis has triggered a period of mourning in the Vatican and signals the start of a millennia-old process ...

Mitchell Johnson has a message for his 2025-26 Archbishop Shaw basketball prospects: “Be ready to work ... hard and smart.” ...

During the Mass, Francis vowed to pursue justice for victims of Church abuse in Ireland as he sought forgiveness for the ...

As the first pope from the Americas—though of Italian immigrant parentage—Francis' election was historic. His call to "make a mess" in the Church led to debates and polarization.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of ...

There may come a time when we look back on the last decade as an anomaly in the modern history of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis – the figurehead of these years, and a radical by the standards of ...