Pope Francis was laid to rest in a location that reflected his humble approach to the grand office. Breaking with tradition, the pontiff, death at the age of 88 was announced on Easter Monday, chose a ...

Pope Francis, who chose his papal name after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

Pope Francis smashed the stereotypical profile for a pontiff, becoming the Catholic Church's first leader from the Americas and the first non-European since the eighth century.

Romans cheered, clapped and cried on Saturday as they watched the simple, open-topped, white "pope-mobile" carry Francis' ...

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Pope Francis has been laid to rest after his funeral at the Vatican. A period of mourning follows – then comes the complex ...

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The Chinese president was attending a closed-door virtual meeting with the UN secretary general, António Guterres, Brazil’s ...

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China is targeting a vulnerability in the United States with a strike in Trump’s tariffs war that was decades in the making.

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