VATICAN CITY — (AP) — Pope Francis, history's first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...

From the outset, it was a different papacy. The first Latin American Pope, the first Jesuit and the first to take the name ...

Pope Francis has died, aged 88, the Vatican has announced, a day after appearing at St Peter’s on Easter Sunday and meeting ...

The death of Francis, who became the first Latin-American pontiff in 2013 and was one of the oldest popes in the church’s ...

All Christians, from Orthodox and Western churches, are observing the holiday on the same day this year in a rare occurrence ...

The 88-year-old pontiff delivered his 'Urbi et Orbi' benediction from a balcony overlooking the square following mass to mark ...

Iman Hijaze was raised in a culturally Shiite Muslim household and considered herself an atheist until she picked up a rosary ...

Catholics celebrated Easter Vigil in the Holy Night at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Saturday, marking what Pope ...

Holding unlit candles, they pack into the sprawling 12th century basilica built on the site where, according to tradition, ...

The administration wants the Supreme Court to “dissolve” their block on deportations of Venezuelans and to allow lower courts ...

Parishioners washed each other’s feet during the Maundy Thursday mass at Holy Cross church in Santa Cruz this week, as part ...

We go into this holy weekend with freedoms that the world has never known,” reads a department-wide email from Scott Turner’s ...