VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...

The Vatican said Francis died at 7:35 a.m. Monday. He had suffered from chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed ...

Bells tolled in churches from his native Argentina to the Philippines and across Rome as news spread around the world.

Bells tolled in church towers across Rome on Monday, and in the evening the Vatican began a Rosary prayer in St. Peter’s ...

“This is a humiliation in that world such as one cannot imagine.” Theodore Edgar McCarrick was born in New York City on July 7, 1930. He was 3 when his father, a merchant seaman and ship’s ...

Pope Francis charmed the world with those poignant acts of love, humility and informality, starting with his first appearance ...

The actionable finding from that disgraceful episode is this: never dissemble, even to defend a venerable institution.

The Titanic, billed as an unsinkable ship, hit an iceberg ... a prominent film producer was a scandal in America and prompted Gibson to move to Paris. As World War II began, there were allegations ...