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

The Nahant, Massachusetts, native is among a not-so-small population of people in the U.S. who say they were confirmed in ...

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

Pope Francis has died of a stroke and cardiac arrest following previous complications with double pneumonia, according to the ...

Indeed, the Pope’s last public sermon on Easter Sunday before he died, words delivered for him at the Vatican by an ...

The pope's death comes one day after Francis, 88, greeted Easter Sunday crowds in his popemobile. He had battled a ...

The Catholic faithful took heart when the pontiff, after two brushes with death, emerged from a hospital and resumed some of ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, 21 April 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta ...

On March 13, 2013, Francis succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, who was the first pope to retire in six centuries. Francis became the ...

The Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy, who was appointed by Pope Francis in 2019, reflects on the ...

One of the most long-lasting impacts of Pope Francis' pontificate may be his appointment of more women than ever before to ...

Millions of people around the world are mourning the death of Pope Francis, who died on Monday after 12 years as the leader ...