The conclave to select a new pope will be sharply different from the body that chose Francis in 2013. Experts say that could ...

Just months after he became the head of the Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis condemned the “new tyranny” of unfettered capitalism ... and the corridors of global power—including the ...

Francis consistently rebuked Trump and the Republican Party, as well as the many U.S. Catholic bishops and priests who support them. He even asked an associate to read JD Vance a long statement on the ...

Neither blindness nor ignorance corrupts people and governments. They soon realize where the path they have taken is leading ...

VATICAN CITY — (AP) — Pope Francis, history's first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...

He consistently chose to visit poor countries where Christians were often persecuted minorities, rather than the centers of global Catholicism ... He changed church law to remove the pontifical ...

He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s ...

He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday:Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario ...