President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will attend Pope Francis’s funeral, following the death of the 88-year-old ...

You wouldn’t have to go back further than the 20th century, however, to find the oldest pope to ever serve. Pope Leo XIII, who ascended to the papacy in 1878, was 93 upon his death in 1903.

President Trump on Monday directed all federal and state flags to fly at half-staff in commemoration of Pope Francis, who ...

Bishop Thomas John Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois released a statement following the death of Pope Francis on Monday.

Francis did not preside over the Vatican’s Easter Mass as he was limiting his workload since his hospitalization, but made an ...

The death of the 88-year-old pontiff puts into motion the process of selecting a successor, according to longstanding Vatican traditions.