Pope Francis, formerly Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, was the first Jesuit Pope, a religious order that discouraged priests from ...

The babies at Franciscan Health Crown Point and Franciscan Health Dyer were photographed surrounded by Easter-themed ...

It’s tradition in the Catholic Church to hold a nine-day mourning period after the Pope dies, but that just so happens to ...

Following the sexual-abuse crisis that badly damaged the Boston Archdiocese, a surge of committed, immigrant parishioners has ...

Pope Francis asked to be buried in St. Mary Major, close to the most important icon of Mary, the Salus Populi Romani.

These college students have seen the “Francis effect” spread beyond their own lives and college campuses. When interacting ...

Cardinal François Bustillo of Ajaccio, Corsica, who will participate in the conclave, shared with La Croix his memory of Pope ...

As the world absorbs the news of the death of Pope Francis -- and before the ever-busy oddsmakers and deep insiders begin the game of papabile speculation that accompanies every papal death and concla ...