How many popes have there been? Has anyone ever refused the office? For an institution that has existed for nearly 2,000 ...

The Conclave Of Cardinals Have Elected A New Pope To Lead The World's Catholics VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - MARCH 13: Newly ...

P ope Francis, the reform-minded Roman Catholic leader who guided the church through an era of crisis, died Monday, April 21, ...

There are time-honoured rituals, some shrouded in secrecy, and a series of carefully planned events that are likely to take place now that Pope Francis has died.

Pope Francis, who died on Monday, called for " a church for the poor ," a church that would reach out to what he called the ...

The Vatican has announced that the Pope is dead. A series of arcane rites now occur and then the complex process of naming a ...

The next few days and weeks will follow a process that is centuries old, from the destruction of Pope Francis’s Fisherman’s ...

The first pope from the Americas, whose drive to modernize the Catholic Church divided opinion, has died in Rome aged 88.

Pope Francis appeared on Easter Sunday, greeting the crowd in a wheelchair with a heartfelt "Happy Easter," marking his ...

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Both critics and followers agree the pope made significant, lasting changes to the Catholic Church and its role in the world.

The pontificate of Jorge Mario Bergoglio - who has died aged 88 - was marked to a degree unknown in the modern history of the ...