One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

VATICAN CITY — Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary Major Basilica a day after he was bade farewell by the powerful ...

When he was elevated to the papacy in 2013, Pope Francis was widely expected to shake up the Catholic Church, to liberals’ ...

The Catholic Church is currently undergoing a nine-day period of mourning and prayer for the late Pope Francis, but everyone ...

Catholic converts wait and ponder, some longer than others. And, this spring, Americans flocked to the Church, including ...

Pope Francis died on April 21 at the age of 88. His funeral Mass was attended by Trump, Macron, Zelenskyy, and other world ...

The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of ...

The funeral drew world leaders, including President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who had a talk in the ...

More than 250,000 people, including heads of state, royalty and the ordinary Catholic faithful were in attendance for the funeral of Pope Francis.

In summary, Pope Francis broke many taboos, opened the Catholic Church to the world, and spread a message of compassion ...

The funeral Mass for Pope Francis, attended by some quarter-million people and watched on screens by many millions more, ...

By Kodjo AdamsAccra, April 26, GNA- Catholic faithful, the diplomatic community and other religious bodies joined the Catholic faithful Friday evening to hold a requiem mass at the Holy Spirit ...