IN A.D. 1605 Sir Francis Bacon appended to the "Advancement of Learning" some prescriptions for posterity. These contain an injunction to construct "A Just Astrology". Bacon had previously ...

A moment of history is unfolding in the Vatican City as an estimated 1.4 billion Catholics are preparing to bid farewell to Pope Francis during his final journey today. Scientists discover ...

Pope Francis' funeral plans have been revealed as millions mourn the pontiff following his death on Easter Monday. The funeral is set to begin at 10am local time on Saturday, exactly six days ...

Science isn’t a winner-take-all, zero-sum game of flag football. Whether during the cold war or the era of Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, the bedrock of science has been international ...

Update 2:30 p.m. ET, April 24: The Vatican has released a look at the final resting place for Pope Francis. The tomb only has the inscription “Franciscus” and an image of his pectoral cross.

“Pope Francis really exemplified what it meant to be merciful," Myers told a reporter in the St. Joseph Chapel at Holy Cross College, moments before the prayer service began. “He reached out ...

Leo Varadkar has praised Pope Francis for reaching out to the LGBT+ community, saying the gesture made him feel ‘more comfortable’ going to church. The Pontiff, 88, died on Monday after a cerebral ...

Hundreds of people gathered at the Cathedral of Christ the King church in Hillbrow on Wednesday for a special memorial mass honouring Pope Francis, who died on 21 April, aged 88. Johannesburg ...

Sir Keir Starmer said the “outpouring of grief” following Francis’s death reflects the “high esteem” in which the Pope was held “not just by millions and millions of Catholics ...

The Australian Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan claimed Pope Francis was a “complex man” who led a complex and “cross-grained papacy”. “He was a man of God; he was a sincere worker for God ...