Roman Catholic cardinals gathered Tuesday in Vatican City to prepare for the Saturday funeral of Pope Francis.

Pope Francis expressed heartfelt words to his personal health care assistant before his death in the early morning hours of ...

Pope Francis will be the first pope in hundreds of years to be buried in Rome’s Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. The pontiff ...

Pope Francis preached tolerance for others, sometimes to the point of breaking with Catholic Church orthodoxy and surprising ...

The Vatican has released the first photos that show Pope Francis lying in state after the head of the Catholic church died on ...

With his upcoming funeral, Pope Francis will one last time force the world to take a look at two U.S. Presidents who ...

Pope Francis’ funeral will take place on Saturday. Chris Jansing is at the Vatican and speaks with historian Elizabeth Lev ...

Pope transformed the church’s senior leadership, exposing growing differences over teachings. “Once you start opening the ...

Grammy Award-winning music producer Emilio Estefan, who was a good friend of Pope Francis, joins José Díaz-Balart to share ...

The cardinals set the funeral for Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. Peter’s Square, to be celebrated by the dean of the College of ...

He peppered his homilies, talks and even encyclicals with literary references from Dostoyevsky, Proust, Hopkins, Dante and ...

Elgin-area Catholics looked back with fondness on the 12-year reign of Pope Francis, who died Monday of a cerebral stroke at ...