The late pontiff was first Jesuit, the first Latin American, and first and last a priest, walking beside people on their journey of faith.

A week ago, Catholics around the world lost arguably the most progressive pope in the church's recent history.

Virginia executed a condemned killer, Timothy Spencer, in the first case in which DNA testing was used to obtain a conviction ...

ROME (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday paid his respects to Pope Francis, occupying a front-row seat in sunlit St.

The Vatican long ago had offered to help facilitate peace talks and Francis had regularly called for peace and dialogue from ...

No breakthrough was reported after US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy met at the Vatican, while Moscow for the first time publicly acknowledged that North Korean troops ...

Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, setting off a series of centuries-old rituals to select a new leader of the Catholic ...

Ten U.S. cardinals are among those who will gather in Rome to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died Monday.

With delegations from about 130 countries present at Pope Francis' funeral, the seating chart needed to be organized ...

Zelensky used the funeral of Pope Francis to launch a diplomatic blitz to head off a U.S. proposal to end Russia’s war on ...

The United States and Iran on Saturday concluded their third round of "indirect" nuclear talks mediated by host Oman with ...