Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced the sad news that 88-year-old Pope Francis passed away at around ...

Francis signaled a very different tone for the papacy, stressing humility over hubris for a Catholic Church beset by scandal ...

As countries transition away from fossil fuels such as coal and peat, communities rightly worry about where the next jobs ...

As President Trump prepares to announce pharmaceutical tariffs, he has one country, in particular, in his sights: Ireland.

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.

Francis, who suffered from chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, was admitted to Gemelli ...