The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another. But when the kindness and ...

The decision by Pope Francis to break with tradition and be buried at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome rather than the Vatican is shining a spotlight on the 5th-century basilica dedicated ...

So many people lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state at St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all ...

Thousands flooded through the walls of Vatican City as a procession of cardinals and pallbearers took the body of the late ...

Pope Francis made an impact on Oklahoma, from Okarche to Oklahoma City to Tulsa. Here are some ways his papal ministry ...

The body of Pope Francis was transferred to St. Peter's Basilica to lie in state for three days so the Catholic faithful and ...

Here at home, mourning continues, but catholics are also taking this as an opportunity to share the late pope’s message of co ...

On the night of his election on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis told the assembled faithful from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica that “tomorrow I wish to go and pray to the Madonna.” And so he did, ...

"The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of ... I love Christ and the Father and the Holy Spirit and our Lady with the same heart with which I love my parents and my friends.

How would you define the legacy of Pope Francis?” the Most Rev. Larry J. Kulick, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of ...