Pope Francis "inspired Catholics and all people of good will to live as Christ did," said Kerry Alys Robinson, who is ...

Francis made his final public appearance on Easter Sunday. He appeared very frail and had delegated the celebration of the ...

Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter’s Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s life in Argentina was marked by challenges that prepared him for his election in an unexpected ...

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina in 1936, Pope Francis cited Jewish theologians and psychoanalysts as influences.

The funeral rites take place in three parts, called stations. The first takes place in the pope’s private chapel, after ...

Bergoglio chose Francis as his papal name just moments after Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes urged him not to forget the ...

Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome.

Pope Francis's body is set to be moved into St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican later this week, where he will lie in state for three days before his funeral.

Pope Francis, whose ministry was shaped in the barrios of Buenos Aires, had a genius for the punchy and memorable turn of ...

Pope Francis, who died on Monday, revised various rites last year, simplifying the funeral rituals to emphasize his role as a mere bishop and allowing for burial outside the Vatican in keeping with ...

Francis died just over a month after his 12th anniversary as pope. He had the ninth longest papacy of the past 200 years.