Several Black cardinals have emerged as frontrunners to become the next pope. Due to reforms by Pope Francis, the field of ...

Pope Francis, the first Jesuit and Latin American pope, has died aged 88, the Vatican announced on Monday. As the Church ...

Francis has chosen to be buried in St. Mary Major Basilica, where his favorite icon of the Virgin Mary, the Salus Populi Romani, is located. The death of a pope begins a precise sequence of events ...

The Vatican said the pope had decreed that he will be buried in St. Mary Major Basilica in a simple underground tomb. The basilica is home to Francis’ favorite icon of the Virgin Mary ...

Pope Francis, who has died aged 88, was the first non-European to be elected to his office in 13 centuries. A Jesuit from Argentina, Francis was also the most liberal, the most political and the ...

In his homily, the Holy Father emphasized the importance of the Virgin Mary ... meeting with Pope John Paul II last November.” The decree establishing the Day of the Unborn Child also ...