Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. A picture shows a Catholic cardinal sealing Pope Francis' residence ...

The prelate celebrated, and delivered the homily at, the second-to-last Mass held in mourning for the Holy Father, who passed ...

The death of Pope Francis initiates a centuries-old process of rituals and traditions culminating with a conclave to choose ...

Pope Francis, the Catholic church’s first Latin American pope, has died at 88. He rose from a humble childhood in Argentina ...

Pope Francis was the 266th pontiff, having taken over from Pope Benedict in 2013. Francis made history as the first pope ...

Easter, the Catholic world was rocked by the news of the passing of Pope Francis, 88. The pontiff had been ill for weeks with double pneumonia and other health concerns. Despite feeling unwell on ...

Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

The pope was formally pronounced dead by the cardinal camerlengo ... Farrell then made a statement announcing the news: "At 7:35 this morning, The Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the ...

But then, on the 13th of May, 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope, and from the moment he took the name Francis (“The ... ascension to the papacy, the news agency Reuters described ...

As the death of Pope Francis is felt around the world, he is likely to be best remembered in Canada for his emotional and long sought-after apology for the role Catholics played in the Indigenous ...