The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

The death of Francis, who was one of the oldest popes in the church’s history, came weeks after he was discharged from a Rome ...

Pope Francis, who died on Monday at the age of 88, will go down in history as a radical pontiff, a champion of the underdog who forged a more ...

Pope Francis, who died Monday aged 88, will go down in history as a radical pontiff, a champion of underdogs who forged a more compassionate Catholic Church while stopping short of overhauling ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

"The impact of his work for the Catholic Church will be felt for many years to come," Bishop James Conley of the Diocese of ...

Aaron Jay Ledesma, a gay member of the Catholic Church, authored "The Gay Catholic" blog while living in Richmond. He saw Pope Francis during his 2015 White House visit.