A conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will begin on Wednesday, May 7, the Vatican announced Monday. The date of the ...

World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. His death set off mourning across the Catholic world and days of ritual ...

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he had inherited. The Catholic Church ...

With the world in mourning for Pope Francis, it's a critical juncture for the Catholic Church deciding who its next spiritual pontiff might be. That means a conclave. Shrouded in secrecy, the College ...

Every pope has his critics. And Pope Francis probably expected that he would face opposition to his reform agenda after ...