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

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

Flags across Texas and the United States have been lowered to half-staff since Monday in honor of Pope Francis.

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

VATICAN CITY — As many as 200,000 people are expected to attend Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square as he is being ...

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

The Pope, famous—perhaps foremost—for his insistence on simplicity and aversion to clerical glitz, wanted to be buried not at ...

Francis chose his place of burial because it reflects his “humble, simple and essential” life, the archbishop who administers ...

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

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

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

When Pope Francis visited the United States in 2015, cheering crowds of Catholics and non-Catholics turned out in New York, ...