Two of the five popes before Francis have become saints, but merely serving as pontiff is no longer a guarantee of ...

Pope Francis's funeral honored his legacy with symbolic items like his miter, crozier, rosary, fisherman's ring and more. Here's what each represents.

Before he was Pope, Jorge Bergoglio was member 88235 of his beloved San Lorenzo soccer club. Now fans in Buenos Aires see a ...

Father Jim Sichko visited Pope Francis as a Papal Missionary of Mercy. When Pope Francis stepped onto the loggia of St. Peter ...

Pope Francis’s willingness to kneel before the least of us is a lesson in what it means to be great, not in the cocoon of ...

Pope Francis, celebrated as a humble yet forceful pontiff, died on April 21 leaving behind a rich legacy of inclusion and activism. His leadership – of over some 1.4 billion Catholics globally ...

The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic order founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola committed to spirituality and social action.

As the world mourns Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88 of a stroke and cardiac arrest, the Catholic Church is fulfilling a series of centuries-old rites – and preparing for the selection ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, was as much a tireless advocate for nature as he was the poor and ...

Numerous leaders will travel to Vatican City, the papal enclave surrounded by Rome, for the funeral services of Pope Francis. The beloved religious head died at the age of 88 on Easter Monday ...

Father James Martin shares personal memories and insights of his longtime champion and fellow Jesuit Pope Francis, who passed ...