ROME — Pope Francis' funeral Mass will take place on Saturday, April 26 in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced. Scores ...

Millions of social media users — presidents and politicians, theologians and celebrities — flocked to social media to share ...

Since the pope left the hospital, he had seemed different, writes NCR's Vatican correspondent Christopher White. That change ...

Catholics around the world expressed their sadness and non-Catholics sent their condolences upon hearing the news of Pope ...

Pope Francis on April 20 met briefly with U.S. Vice President JD Vance in the first in-person encounter between one of the ...

We need the moral courage that Francis exemplified — a willingness to speak truth to power and to call for radical ...

With the death of Pope Francis April 21, the practical aspects of overseeing the day-to-day needs of the church and ...

Pope Francis was a pastor, first and foremost, and a good pastor teaches. Any pope's most enduring legacy is the body of ...

Pope Francis, history's first pontiff from the Global South, has died at age 88 following a monthslong respiratory illness, ...

Pope Francis' funeral rites, like those for any pope or any Christian, are meant to "reinforce the hope and witness to the ...

Tens of thousands of people planned to be at the Vatican this week for the canonization of Carlo Acutis, the first millennial ...

Christiana Figueres is an internationally recognized leader on climate change. She was executive secretary of the United ...