Pope Francis was thankful that he was able to greet throngs of people in St Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday, a day before he died, though he initially had some doubts given his poor health, Vatican ...

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Oscar Crespo was watching TV in his native Buenos Aires when he saw the white smoke appearing above the Sistine Chapel at the ...

In East Timor, where Francis’ final outdoor Mass drew nearly half of the population last September, President Jose ...

- French President Emmanuel Macron, right, shakes hands with and goes to hug Pope Francis at the end of their private ...

In life, Pope Francis strayed from the more conservative path forged by his predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict.

Roman Catholic cardinals gathered Tuesday in Vatican City to prepare for the Saturday funeral of Pope Francis.

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, ...

President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...

With more than 61 million Catholics and the second-highest number of cardinals after Italy, the United States is primed for the question of whether an ...

The papal funeral is scheduled for Saturday, April 26. It will be a more modest event than others, for a modest man.

Pope Francis’s death, according to a government official at the Vatican, was due to a “stroke, followed by a coma and ...