The hand-written letter from Napoleon rejecting his role in the kidnapping of Pope Pius VII in 1809 sold for €26,360 at an ...

St. Denis School was the first Roman Catholic place of learning in Delaware County. 10 Years Ago, 2015: In less than five minutes, people interested in helping to implement the World Meeting of ...

Pope Francis Pope Francis is dead at 88, on the day after Easter— an appropriate Lenten ep­ilogue for a pontiff with a keen sense of story. 60 years earlier, Francis was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a ...

At age 16, Ana María Careaga was pregnant and kidnapped during the regime of terror. Her story is one Pope Francis never forgot, sending WhatsApp voice notes and videos throughout the years to mark ...

THE outpouring of grief following the death of Pope Francis was like a wall of noise, a practically uninterrupted blanket of ...

"He was dear to all people, very down to earth. You’ve never seen any of that kind of person, so humbled," said James Dmello, ...

Pope Francis requested simplicity in his wooden coffin and final resting place​, but his funeral Mass still reflected the ...

RUTH SHERLOCK, BYLINE: Pope Francis' simple wooden casket, as he'd requested, rested before the altar at the entrance to St. Peter's Basilica, the humble center of a grand spectacle. SHERLOCK: Around ...

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, attended San Lorenzo matches as a child with his Italian immigrant father and ...

Efforts to fix the Vatican’s broken finances helped restore confidence among big givers. But the work isn’t finished.

Pope Francis is the pope of the people,” Rosa de los Ríos told America in Spanish before the funeral Mass. “He is very close ...

It’s been quite the week for Olympique de Marseille, who found themselves at a training camp in Rome only several days after ...