Nine cardinals are in the running to become the next Pope of Rome, with the College of Cardinals responsible for choosing ...

U.S. Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, the "camerlengo" or chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church, announced to the world that Pope ...

With the death of Pope Francis April 21, the practical aspects of overseeing the day-to-day needs of the church and ...

Later in the morning, local Churches started tolling the death knell from their bell towers. The request had come from ...

Maybe we imagine ourselves stubbornly standing by Him as all others abandon and condemn Him. But let's be honest -- the ...

With the death of Pope Francis at age 88, Christian world now awaits papal conclave, which will conclude with white smoke ...

Pope Francis' death sets into motion a series of formalized rites and observances that occur during what is called the ...

Mourners gathered as a hush fell over St. Peter’s Square, where the pope had appeared the day earlier in his wheelchair to ...

Francis died at 7:35 a.m. on Monday, April 21, U.S. Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell said in a video announcement broadcast from the ...

Pope Francis's death sets an ancient machinery into motion. Soon, with a puff of smoke, the last absolute monarchy in Europe ...

Pope Francis' funeral rites, like those for any pope or any Christian, are meant to "reinforce the hope and witness to the faith" that those who have been baptized in Christ "will rise with him to new ...

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.