The U.S. Supreme Court April 22 heard a case concerning a request from an interfaith group of Maryland parents to allow them ...

President Donald Trump, officials in his administration and other U.S. political leaders issued statements expressing ...

Centuries of experience dealing with the death, or occasional resignation, of a pope has left the Catholic Church with ...

The hope Christians have is not a sign of avoiding reality but of trusting in the power of God to defeat sin and death as the ...

U.S. Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church, uses holy water to bless the body of Pope Francis in ...

After celebrating Mass at noon April 21 for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, ...

In his brief final testament, Pope Francis asked to be buried at Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major and said he had offered ...

Pope Francis died April 21 after suffering a stroke and heart attack, said the director of Vatican City State's department of ...

In his efforts to promote a holistic defense of human life, Pope Francis frequently denounced a "throwaway culture" where ...

Over the course of his pontificate, Pope Francis held up two recurring images: the good shepherd who looks for the lost sheep ...

Pope Francis, history's first pope from the global south and a maverick who often delighted the world, died April 21 after fighting pulmonary disease for the last few months.

From the moment he took the helm of the Catholic Church's sprawling hierarchy, Pope Francis positioned himself as a pastor ...