(CNN) — The death of Pope Francis has triggered a period of mourning in the Vatican and signals the start of a millennia-old process of picking a new pontiff. It is a procedure steeped in ...

Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, died of a stroke and heart failure on Easter Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican ...

David Ng held back tears as he approached the stone steps of North America’s largest Roman Catholic Church, its bells tolling in the Monday midday gloom. The news of Pope Francis’s death had ...

Father Craig Hightower at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Missoula says the passing of Pope Francis is especially impactful because he was the first Jesuit pope. "I think there's a lot of ...

There is a spike in converts to the Roman Catholic Church as young adults reportedly seek "moral order" after the pandemic years. While people may convert to the Catholic faith at any time of year ...

President Trump stocked his cabinet with conservative Catholics, and elevated Mr. Vance as vice president, a Catholic convert whose views on church doctrine are deeply enmeshed with his political ...

With a conclave to select a new pope typically not taking place for two to three weeks after a pontiff's passing, several weeks can go by without a pope leading the Roman Catholic Church.

He served as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church for 12 years. Read more here. Congressional leaders honored Pope Francis, who became the first pontiff to address Congress during his visit to ...

Pope Francis mingles with children inside a paddocked space set aside for Sunday school children at St Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Kangemi, Nairobi on November 27, 2015. [File/Standard] A ...

The moment was the start of a 12-year papacy that marked a sea change for the Catholic Church. Francis quickly became a media darling as he grappled with the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic ...

"His election in 2013 will be seen as a kind of tectonic shift in the life of the Church," Michael Sean Winters, a longtime writer for the National Catholic Reporter told Newsweek. Upon his ...

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a ...