The Newark archbishop was a friend and confidant of Pope Francis who could steer the Conclave of Cardinals in its choice of a new pontiff.

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell was seen sealing the door to ...

When the cardinals gather in Rome to elect Pope Francis’s successor, two issues will weigh on their decision: the Catholic ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

For Catholics, Pope Francis was (and is) a kind of Rorschach test of where one thought the church should go in this century ...

The Philippines Church and its people pay homage to Pope Francis. Cardinal David remembers him as a pastor among the faithful ...

Pope Francis was a man of the people. Will the next pope be?

Will the Pope go to Heaven” asked the Facebook blurb for the Pastors’ Heart podcast special episode following the death of ...

“America First” risks becoming “America alone,” a reality that may extend to the Catholic Church in the United States. “America first” also means that U.S. Catholicism is more captive ...

Ever since Pope Francis died, I have been reflecting upon my time in Catholic school and the lessons I learned about service, community and hard work.

"We're going to miss him. He was a great pope and a great leader," Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, John Wester said.

Good Catholics were supposed to embrace gay people but not their gayness. That’s hardly the arithmetic of equality.