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.

Looking at photos of my family and hearing how the Church was unfairly closed to my children, Pope Francis stated simply that the Church must be open to everyone, and reminded us that he is not the ...

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as ...

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

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 ...

Canadians are reacting to Pope Francis's death on Easter Monday, which came more than two months after he was hospitalized ...

Adherents are reviving old practices and growing more assertive in the battle for the future of the Church—and the nation.

While more than half of Connecticut adults follow Christianity, about 31% of the adult respondents said they are religiously ...

Pope Francis passed away this morning at 88 years old. Director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life ...

Following the death or resignation of a pope, the camerlengo of the church, typically will take over as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church until a new pope is selected ...