For many people in German-speaking countries, it is a tradition to collect eggs or go to church at Easter. What about other ...

For months, the pontiff spoke by telephone almost every night with people sheltering in a Catholic church in the battered ...

The pope and the president remade the Catholic church and American politics in their outsider images, but their relationship ...

An anonymous benefactor will pay for the cost of Pope Francis’s funeral, the Vatican has said. “The expenses for the ...

Pope Francis, who rose from janitor to the Catholic Church’s most powerful leader by proving equally at ease with ...

Francis' death set off the process of allowing the faithful to pay their final respects, first for Vatican officials in the Santa Marta chapel and then in St. Peter’s for the general public.

Easter, the holiest on the Christian calendar - Pope Francis doubled down on the defining theme of his papacy: mercy.

An 84-year-old man was critically injured after falling from a cross during a reenactment of the crucifixion of Jesus that ...

The world is mourning Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday, aged 88. Vatican City sources have shared details of his final ...

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

Cardinal Timothy Dolan joined Catholics worldwide and across the city with remembrances of a spiritual leader known for his ...

Pope Francis’ cause of death has been announced following the pontiff’s passing Monday at age 88. Pope Francis died on Monday ...