The U.S. flag flies at half-staff above the White House in Washington April 21, 2025, in honor of Pope Francis, who died that ...

A long queue of pilgrims queued to enter St. Peter's Square in Rome on Wednesday, April 23, as the coffin carrying the body ...

Pope Francis passed away at 7:35 a.m. local time on Easter Monday, April 21, at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa ...

The burial of Pope Francis will take place on Saturday at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major in Rome, the Vatican announced on Tuesday, as the Church prepares to lay the late pope to rest and start the ...

The fight was ultimately irrelevant to the evening; more likely the byproduct of Italy’s lax public drinking laws than a ...

Pope Francis died of a stroke, the Vatican announced hours after the death on Monday of the 88-year-old reformer, who ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern ...

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.

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.