The funeral for Francis, the first first Latin American pontiff, is set for 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Peter's Square in The ...

Xavier University students returned from Easter break just in time for Earth Day, now bearing a deeper meaning in the wake of Pope Francis' death.

As news of the pope’s death traveled across the globe, observers fondly remembered a man who bought his own eyeglasses, got ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, ...

"We have lost our spiritual father. While there is sadness in my heart, there is also a deep sense of gratitude for his ...

The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, who died in 2006, was to take place on Sunday but has been ...

The pope's body will lie in state at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome starting April 23 and mourners can pay respects ahead of ...

Archbishop John C. Wester of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe celebrated an evening Mass for Francis at the Cathedral Basilica of ...

On the morning of Monday, April 21, Pope Francis, “the first Pope from the Americas,” passed away. In his writings, public addresses and good works, he ...

Pope Francis had an informal, lighthearted speaking style, and sometimes he even created words in a combination of his native ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and ...