One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

Francis, who died this morning, transformed far more than the priorities of the Catholic Church.

In theory Francis shared those concerns, promising a more collegial and horizontally oriented church, more synodal, in the ...

Peter was the first pontiff of the Catholic church, and several popes have been considered "great" in the interim.

Pope Francis’s tenure was punctuated by repeated clashes with American political leaders and sweeping efforts to install more ...

The Vatican — with its politics, its pageantry and its power — has long been a favorite subject for artists and thinkers.

“Here comes everybody.” Thus did Irish novelist James Joyce describe the Catholic Church’s diversity. That might have served ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

Films highlight the doctrinaire versus the avant-garde and the machinations behind becoming pope What was unique about Pope ...

Although he never visited Argentina, Francis returned to South America when he visited Brazil in the first months of his ...

His funeral is being held on Saturday in St. Peter’s Square. Francis will then be buried, according to his will: in a simple ...

When the leader of the Roman Catholic Church passes away, a meticulously planned protocol unfolds, balancing tradition, faith ...