Pope Francis brought a breath of fresh air into a 2,000-year-old institution that had seen its influence wane during the ...

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

As a pope who wanted to stay close to the people and at times advocated a more moderate line at the Church, Pope Francis ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humility and concern for ...

Tennessee lawmakers push to overturn the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision on free public education for children regardless of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

Tennessee General Assembly legislation violates Supreme Court ruling in Plyler v. Doe, which determined that states may not ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope, died following recent hospitalizations, a day after delivering his final Easter ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...