After years in Protestant churches, I found in Catholicism a deeper tradition, a firmer foundation, and a call to holiness I ...

His critics were fellow clergy as well as elected officials in the ascendant wing of the American Catholic political realm.

The pontiff, who died on Easter Monday at age 88, strived to make the church more inclusive. But critics believed his reforms ...

Christians around the world celebrated on Sunday the resurrection of Jesus Christ, from Vatican City where Pope Francis made ...

While early popes endured the split of the Roman Empire, the Crusades and the Italian Renaissance, more recent popes have had to deal with how to integrate the religion's historically strict teachings ...

The death of Pope Francis has triggered a period of mourning in the Vatican and signals the start of a millennia-old process of picking a new pontiff.

A longtime Vatican correspondent shares his insights on the legacy of Pope Francis, a populist leader who sought to bring the Church closer to the people.

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

Francis has revolutionized the College of Cardinals by passing over large archdioceses like Los Angeles, Venice and Milan in ...

VATICAN CITY -- Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five ...

Pope Francis brought a limited but desperately needed progressive spirit to the Catholic Church. Under his successor, that ...