Local Catholics began a nine-day mourning period Monday after the death of Pope Francis. Francis died Easter Monday at the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Some takeaways about the life of Pope Francis, who died Monday: ...

Argentines long waited for Pope Francis to visit the homeland he left in 2013 to become the head of the Roman Catholic Church ...

The faithful in Pope Francis’ hometown lit candles in the church where he found God as a teenager. They packed the cathedral ...

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

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter’s Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to ...

Saturday was the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. The attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building claimed the lives of at least 168 people, including 19 children, and was the ...