The funeral and burial of a pope who dies in office should take place “between the fourth and sixth day after death,” the ...

Flender’s first listing was a coup: the newly vacant $1.5 million apartment of Jerry Bock, the Broadway-musical composer ...

With Pope Francis' passing, the Roman Catholic Church is focused on electing his replacement. Here's what that means.

Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, has died at the age of 88, following a long asthmatic respiratory crisis, ...

This opposition was driven in the main by deep-rooted distaste for the direction in which the Argentinian Pope was taking the ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born on December 17 1936 in the Flores district of Buenos Aires, the eldest of five children in a ...

The pontificate of Jorge Mario Bergoglio - who has died aged 88 - was marked to a degree unknown in the modern history of the ...

He spoke out passionately on the plight of migrants fleeing war and poverty, the pressing need to protect the environment and ...

The decision by Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to reject the lavish red slippers of his office was widely ...

Following his election, friends said he was a man rejuvenated as he sought to breathe new life into the church he had served ...

Two weeks after his surprise election as pontiff, Pope Francis carried out the Maundy Thursday ritual of washing and kissing the feet of 12 people, replicating Christ’s gesture of humility to his ...

The Vatican today confirmed the Argentine pontiff died following his treatment for bronchitis at Gemelli Hospital in Rome ...