Today the concept of academic freedom may seem obvious to Americans. But the roots of academic freedom, which can be traced ...

What began as a slow-burning fuse eventually led to the concept of the modern research university a few centuries later, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the “most peripheral of the peripheries ...

The body of Pope Francis will be moved Wednesday morning to St. Peter's Basilica for three days of public mourning for an Argentine pontiff remembered for his humble style, concern for the poor ...

Pope Francis Death News: Pope Francis died of a stroke and subsequent irreversible heart failure. The Vatican announced that Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church ...

Before he became Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a devotee of La Virgen Desatanudos – Mary the untier of knots, the virgin mother of Jesus as a solver of gnarly problems.

VATICAN CITY – After spending more than five weeks in hospital for a bout of double pneumonia, doctors told Pope Francis he needed two months’ rest – but the leader of the world’s 1.4 billion ...

Pope Francis' death Monday at the age of 88 comes after the Catholic leader experienced a number of health issues in recent years. Francis died at 7:35 a.m. Monday at his residence, the Vatican said.

As the world mourns Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88 of a stroke and cardiac arrest, the Catholic Church is fulfilling a series of centuries-old rites – and preparing for the selection ...

Dozens have confirmed their attendance for Pope Francis’s funeral, which is scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 26, at 10 a.m. on the parvis of St. Peter’s Basilica. It has been 20 ...

Other memes argue that despite his ailments, Pope Francis held on long enough just to tell Vance what a horrible Catholic he was … Either way, it’s an increasingly bad look for the US’s ...