The late pontiff was first Jesuit, the first Latin American, and first and last a priest, walking beside people on their ...

President Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met privately ahead of the funeral of Pope Francis and "had a ...

After a week of global mourning for Pope Francis, who died on Monday at age 88, the pope's funeral will be celebrated on ...

Those touched − figuratively and literally − by Pope Francis, the "People's Pope," during his only visit to the U.S. reflect ...

When the cardinals meet for the conclave, they gather in the Sistine Chapel. All cardinal electors must swear an oath of ...

The US president and the pontiff frequently exchanged criticisms over compassion for migrants, a group Trump has repeatedly ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and ...

Pontiffs have been players in global affairs for hundreds of years. Pope Francis carved out his own form of global influence.

Elected pope in 2013, Francis was known as a humble reformer who worked to make the Church more inclusive and was concerned ...

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of ...

After a tumultuous papacy, Pope Francis leaves the Chair of Peter with faithful American Catholics anticipating a return to orthodoxy.

For six days in September, 2015, Pope Francis made a historic visit to the United States, visiting some of the country's ...