Meet the Irish-American Camerlengo and Italian dean who are in charge of administering the Church during this interim period.

Most popes have come from Europe, even though there are countries in South and Central America, Asia, and Africa with ...

The pope's death comes one day after Francis, 88, greeted Easter Sunday crowds in his popemobile. He had battled a ...

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.

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday. He was 88, and had suffered a ...

Francis, who suffered from chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, was admitted to Gemelli ...

Pope Francis’ transformative vision for the American church made it more open, but also energized conservative resistance ...

The pope and the president remade the Catholic church and American politics in their outsider images, but their relationship ...

Pope Francis’s tenure was punctuated by repeated clashes with American political leaders and sweeping efforts to install more ...

My Catholic identity and my wife’s Protestant identity continue to endure, and our faith has developed together in greater ...

Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of ...