Like all royals on whose door this correspondent has ever knocked, getting an audience with Liechtenstein’s Serene Highness ...

The Vatican today confirmed the Argentine pontiff died following his treatment for bronchitis at Gemelli Hospital in Rome ...

Hollywood is mourning Pope Francis. Celebrities shared tributes to the head of the Catholic Church on social media Monday ...

My heart goes out to the millions of Christians all over the world who loved him,” Vance wrote on social media.

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next ...

You wouldn’t have to go back further than the 20th century, however, to find the oldest pope to ever serve. Pope Leo XIII, who ascended to the papacy in 1878, was 93 upon his death in 1903.

The funeral date is determined by the cardinals but typically takes place between four to six days after the pope’s death.

Pope Francis, who died on Monday, revised various rites last year, simplifying the funeral rituals to emphasize his role as a ...

Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, has died at the age of 88, following a long asthmatic respiratory crisis, ...

The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, has been postponed due to the death Monday of Pope Francis, the ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. Here are the key things to know about the death of the Argentine pontiff, history’s first from Latin America, who presided over the ...

Born Dec. 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants.