The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

In June 2017, Lupita Gutierrez, resident of Spokane and active member of the St. Joseph Catholic Church, went to Rome for her 60th birthday, with members from the St. Patrick's Church in Pasco. They ...

Xavier University priest Eric Sundrup explained to WCPO why this was such a big deal to have a Jesuit pope, and how it relates to the cornerstones of what he teaches at Xavier.

The Vatican said the Catholic leader, who suffered from chronic lung disease and recently spent 38 days in the hospital for a ...

Archbishop John C. Wester of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe celebrated an evening Mass for Francis at the Cathedral Basilica of ...