Despite his poor health, Pope Francis stood tall over the past year and a half in opposition to the genocide in Gaza, writes .

ET By Christopher Lamb, Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Ivana Kottasová Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, died of a stroke and ...

Francis moderated the authoritarianism of his predecessors but more change is needed; the cardinals must elect someone who ...

I'm not a Catholic who follows the Vatican's commands unquestioned. But Pope Francis worked hard to make the church more ...

Anyone trying to handicap the outcome should remember that Jorge Mario Bergoglio was considered too old to be elected pope in ...

The Vatican said the Catholic leader, who suffered from chronic lung disease and recently spent 38 days in the hospital for a ...

The pope, who was 88, died Monday morning the day after Easter, considered the holiest day on the Christian calendar. He had been ill, but the death of the popular pontiff still caught many by ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis died Monday morning, Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced. “At 7:35 ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

Pope Francis, the 266th leader of the Roman Catholic Church and a transformative figure in modern religious history, has died ...

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