His funeral is being held on Saturday in St. Peter's Square. Francis will then be buried, according to his will: in a simple underground tomb at St. Mary Major Basilica. The church is home to his ...

Mourners bid farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral that highlighted his concern for the 'most peripheral of the peripheries.' ...

Pope Francis is being laid to rest on Saturday following his death at the age of 88, with tens of thousands of mourners ...

The late Pope Francis continued his legacy as an open-armed trailblazer by opening the sacred portal of the Vatican and dying ...

Francis' "no" to women's ordination is not just the exclusion of women from a Church role. It is an insupportable and blatant rejection of women's full and equal dignity as acquired through God's gift ...

Pope Francis’ emphasis on reaching out to the “peripheries" of the church and world will result in the most diverse ...

The Catholic dioceses hoping to run the nation's first religious charter school say anti-Catholic bias was behind many states ...

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) look at what the film gets wrong — and gets right — about the process of electing a new pope.

By Michelle Trauring Catholic clergy and parishioners around the world are in a state of mourning and grief following the ...

President Trump and Ukraine's President Zelenskyy met privately earlier and had a "very productive session," according to ...

Two of the five popes before Francis have become saints, but merely serving as pontiff is no longer a guarantee of ...

Pope Francis, the pontiff whose acts of love and humility rippled through his papacy, is being laid to rest in a service he ...