The Prince of Wales will attend the funeral of Pope Francis on behalf of King Charles III, Kensington Palace says in a ...

Modern popes, for better or for worse, tend to be defined in soundbites. John Paul II’s clarion call of ‘Be not afraid’ ...

As the Catholic Church looks to the future, the next pope will have to build upon Francis’s foundation — he will have to ...

An Irish-born American cardinal was entrusted by Pope Francis to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the death of one pontiff and before the election of another ...

A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” It implies the sacred ...

Pope Francis died after a cerebral stroke, the Vatican announced Monday. The 88-year-old pontiff died early Easter Monday following the stroke. The episode put him into a coma and led to irreversible ...

Pope Francis has died at the age of 88. His death was announced by Cardinal Kevin Farrell in a statement which read, “At 7:35 ...

Situation of St. Peter's Square in Vatican moments after Pope Francis' passing. "At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, ...

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni will test her mettle as an EU facilitator when she meets with Donald Trump in the White House.