It was a few days before Holy Week in 2013 when my journey with Pope Francis began. I wasn’t a priest yet. I was a seminarian ...

Francis, who had only recently left hospital after five weeks being treated for double pneumonia, last appeared in public on Sunday, when he delighted onlookers gathered to celebrate Easter by ...

Pope Francis’s devoted faithful will likely soon be hollering for the late, humble, huddled-masses-loving pontiff to be fast-tracked to sainthood, experts said Tuesday. But his fans should ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in others such as abortion, and made inroads with ...

Pope Francis, the former Argentinian cardinal who often bucked age-old Vatican traditions in favor of more modern yet humble approaches, died after an extended respiratory illness on April 21 ...

Pope Francis in D.C. after speaking to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 24, 2015. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) Popes aren’t meant to be revolutionaries. Pope Francis, however ...

Mr. Shenon, a former Washington and foreign correspondent for The Times, is the author of “Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church.” How will history judge ...

Pope Francis, born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, died April 21 at age 88. Rev. J. Mark Spalding, bishop for the Catholic Diocese of Nashville, released statement and remembers "hallmarks" of Francis ...