58. “‘Sir’, they said, ‘We remember that while he was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’ ...

A man of prayer and intellect with a strong devotion to the Blessed Mother, Pope Francis entrusted the faithful to the mercy ...

Predicting the next pope can be a notoriously secretive and unpredictable exercise. An old Italian saying even ...

He was the first Pope on record to resign on the grounds of age or ill health. Rumour ran rife that Benedict had been ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88, leaving a legacy of humility, reform, and advocacy for the ...

The father of a great family has died — the Holy Father, we Catholics call him. The family of the world’s Catholics is in ...

Before he became Pope Francis, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was a devotee of La Virgen Desatanudos — Mary the untier of ...

Pope Francis led Catholics around the world for a dozen years, and for some younger adults he is the pope they thought of as their own - concerned about the environment, the poor and peace. NPR ...

His public persona may have been the humble and patient father figure, but Francis spent his 12 years as pope reorganizing the Vatican bureaucracy — the Roman curia — with more than a touch of ...

Youngstown Diocese Catholics are mourning the death of the pope. "May Pope Francis see the face of God today," Bishop David Bonnar said.

The test of these changes. — some of which were only finalized three years ago — will come in the closed-door power brokering that goes on around the conclave, which will elect a new pope. The process ...