As many as 200,000 people are expected to attend Pope Francis' funeral in St. Peter’s Square as he is being laid to rest ...

To recognize the signing of the pact of friendship, Cannara sent its sister city a scale model of a bronze statue of St. Francis made by Italian artist Antonio de Paoli. The full-scale sculpture was ...

Here are the key things to know about the funeral of the first Latin American pontiff in the church’s history.

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 ...

Every pope has his critics. But Pope Francis’ conservative opponents were unique in that they actually had a living alternate ...

He was a source of inspiration for many artists, even those who have nothing to do with religion, because he was a ...

The same Scripture verse also inspired Schmalz’s Angels Unawares sculpture — also located within St. Peter’s Square — which ...

An extensive restoration has been completed at the Historic St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in downtown Bend, which is ...

ROME — Pope Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican Grottoes. After his ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- In the wake of his passing, many people are remembering when Pope Francis visited Philadelphia in 2015 ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was anointed as the Pope, he chose to rename himself as Francis after St. Francis of Assisi, the medieval saint who founded the Franciscans, one of the largest ...