The father of a papal visit volunteer who died after a scaffolding accident due to bad weather when Pope Francis was in ...

For Catholics, Pope Francis was (and is) a kind of Rorschach test of where one thought the church should go in this century ...

Widely known as the "Asian Francis", Fr Tagle accompanied Pope Francis on his 11-day tour of South East Asia last year. He ...

Each year Pope Francis shared monthly prayer themes. His prayer for April 2025 was particularly pointed for the modern world: ...

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Netanyahu says Hamas ‘exactly’ like the Nazis, vows Israel 'will never surrender' and if ...

Grief-stricken Catholics in Southern California reflect on the transformative encounters they shared with him and how those ...

COMMENT: Writing exclusively for The Independent, former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby recalls his meetings with Pope ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, passed away on April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 following complications from ...

I will never forget the first time I met the Pope in 2013. I had never met a Pope before and was on edge. The Vatican is designed to overwhelm visitors with power. We walk through long corridors to ...