Pope Francis, whose birth name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio, died in Rome on April 21, 2025, after suffering a bout of double ...

The couple, who married in June of 2024, had their marriage blessed by Pope Francis just before he entered the hospital ...

When he was elevated to the papacy in 2013, Pope Francis was widely expected to shake up the Catholic Church, to liberals’ ...

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he had inherited. The Catholic Church still rejected same-sex marriage and condemned any sexual relations between ...

Pope Francis presides at a Mass for the closing of the 16th general assembly of the synod of bishops, in St.Peter's Basilica ...

Karl D. Bar-Lev, a retired U.S. Navy veteran who served for 17 years, also entered the Church at the Easter Vigil. Raised in ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and ...

St. Louis community members gathered beneath the vaulted ceiling of St. Francis Xavier College Church for a Memorial Mass to ...

For Catholics, Pope Francis was (and is) a kind of Rorschach test of where one thought the church should go in this century ...

It's very possible the next pope could be from Africa, where the Catholic Church continues to add millions of members.

The religious scholars took to their talk show show today to discuss replacing the pope, and host Joy Behar expressed her ...