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

The death of Pope Francis silences arguably the most powerful moral voice on the world stage critical of Donald Trump, with ...

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

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

Here are some statistics about Pope Francis, whose death at the age of 88 was announced by the Vatican on Monday.

After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing ...

South Florida joins in the mourning for Pope Francis, the 88-year-old pontiff who was born in Argentina and was the first ...

Even before dawn broke on Cuba’s iconic Plaza de La Revolución on Sunday, tens of thousands of the faithful had gathered to ...

The death of Pope Francis, the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, silences one of the world’s clearest voices for ...

Francis’ election as pope began an unprecedented era, as a retired pontiff lived side by side with a reigning one inside the ...

Francis was a deeply religious child in Buenos Aires. The first pontiff from Latin America tried to create a more welcoming ...

Pope Francis was the 266th pontiff, having taken over from Pope Benedict in 2013. Francis made history as the first pope ...