This morning, attention will be focused on Rome, the eternal city, as world leaders gather to say farewell to Pope Francis. His funeral is expected to avoid some of the more ornate papal ...

paying respects to Pope Francis at his funeral, but also meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine at a critical moment that may decide both the country’s boundaries and its fate.

On the day Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth, I was struggling to climb a near-vertical cliff on the Parajito Plateau of northern New Mexico. My fingers gripped tightly ...

Francis never changed church teaching on these topics, but he was less condemnatory and more welcoming to those who did not accept the church's teaching. Francis continued and advanced the work of ...

The implication was that Sarah had manipulated Benedict into lending his name and moral authority to a book that had all the appearances of being a counterweight to Francis' own teaching.

Pope Francis emerge as one of the most influential global leaders advocating for compassion, mercy, and justice. Since his election in 2013, his papacy has been marked by a profound commitment to ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Pope Francis was the most humble Pope in living memory, so has he shaped the future of Catholicism?

Pope Francis, who died Monday, appointed the vast majority of electors, often tapping men who share his pastoral priorities, which suggests continuity rather than rupture. Anyone trying to ...