At first, these seemed to be the inevitable concomitants of an elderly pope governing in an era of social media that he could ...

The Supreme Court appeared set Wednesday to allow Oklahoma to fund a religious charter school, potentially transforming K-12 ...

Pope Francis chose his place of burial in St. Mary Major Basilica, near an icon of the Madonna that he revered, because it ...

Pope Francis, who died Monday, had visited Philadelphia in September 2015 for the World Meeting of Families event, which drew ...

As the Roman Catholic faithful in Pittsburgh mourn Pope Francis, many are remembering the pontiff's visit to the United ...

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

When he was installed as head of Roman Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis was heralded as a progressive change-maker. For ...

Pope Francis’ transformative vision for the American church made it more open, but also energized conservative resistance ...

The death of Pope Francis this morning sparked a stream of tributes from members of Bermuda’s Roman Catholic community.

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary Major Basilica a day after he was bade farewell by the powerful of the ...

The death of Pope Francis, about whom there is no shortage of opinions, is not just a seminal moment for the world’s 1.4 ...