The Easter season offers us the opportunity to let ourselves be perplexed and even to doubt as we wait for the good news to ...

A simplified papal funeral will make a fitting farewell for a pontiff who just three days after his surprise election ...

Pope Francis' solemn funeral Mass will be broadcast and livestreamed by multiple media outlets April 26, providing several ...

April 25, Catholics at a digital wake expressed both sorrow and gratitude for Pope Francis and his leadership in protecting ...

Some of the fundamental differences between the U.S. president and the late pope — not only their divergent styles but their ...

Whether Cardinal Angelo Becciu, who relinquished the rights associated with being a cardinal after he was forced to resign in ...

Ordinary Catholics saw Pope Francis as a compassionate pastor who cared about people, especially the poor and the ...

When a pope had the audacity to name himself after St. Francis — a man of peace, simplicity and creation — I began to dream ...

Francis' 12-year reign saw small steps advancing women in the church. We may not know for years what the aims of a new papacy ...

Three hours after the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had died on April 21, the bells of Notre-Dame de Paris, the ...

"Some say he did not do enough; others criticize him for even meeting with people like me," said one transgender Catholic.

It is natural to compare a pope to his predecessors. But many of the comparisons being made now betray an ideological edge ...