Just to be clear, the conclave is not like Philippine elections. For one, it will be marked not by fanfare but by prayers, ...

Pope Francis, the 266th Bishop of Rome and Sovereign of the Vatican City, has died on Easter Monday. Bells tolled in church ...

The meeting marked the first time a president and pope met alone ... you have been a minister of peace and love. Your words, your prayers, your example have made you – for those who suffer ...

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

As new flights connect western Europe and Tbilisi, Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent explores the wide-open spaces of the little-visited Javakheti plateau ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

He emerged on Easter Sunday — his last public appearance, a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St.

By the time Francis took over as leader of the Catholic Church in 2013, meetings between the president and the pontiff had ...

Pope Francis brought a breath of fresh air into a 2,000-year-old institution that had seen its influence wane during the ...

May 2007: Helps draft the final document of the fifth meeting ... century pontificate, which at the time was more than all his predecessors combined for 500 years. July 8, 2013: Makes first ...