At age 16, Ana María Careaga was pregnant and kidnapped during the regime of terror. Her story is one Pope Francis never ...

Crowds of mourners waited in line on Sunday for a chance to visit Pope Francis’ final resting place in the Santa Maria ...

The Pope, famous—perhaps foremost—for his insistence on simplicity and aversion to clerical glitz, wanted to be buried not at ...

Pope Francis was honored with a funeral Mass Saturday morning in the Vatican City's St. Peter's Square. These are some of the ...

Catholics in Maryland and nationwide attended their first Sunday Mass without Pope Francis leading the church.

Pope Francis had a great sense of humor. When I met him once at the back of the papal plane, I cracked a joke with him that ...

The world's 1.3 billion Catholics paid tribute to their spiritual leader Saturday as he was laid to rest in Rome. "Sunday ...

Tens of thousands of people flocked to the Vatican for Francis' funeral for a historic moment for the Catholic Church—and the ...

An estimated 400,000 people lined the streets of Rome and gathered inside St Peter's Square for the funeral of Pope Francis ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

In Oakland, people filled the Cathedral of Christ the Light to say their final goodbyes to Pope Francis, who died on Monday.

Cardinals this week will start in-depth discussions on planning the conclave to choose Pope Francis' successor. No date has ...