His Holiness died Monday after suffering a stroke that led to irreversible heart failure following a weeks-long ...

Pope Francis' funeral has been scheduled for 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. Eastern) on Saturday in front of St. Peter's Basilica ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...

Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News host, unleashed a sharp critique of the late pontiff’s leadership and political stance, ...

Now, a meeting of cardinals at the Vatican has now provided an update on plans for the pope’s funeral. They have confirmed it ...

On Holy Saturday night at the Cathedral, Archbishop Nelson Pérez welcomed into the Catholic Church some of the 725 adults ...

Religious practice is in decline in Ireland and secularisation and cultural diversity are on the rise, so why is confirmation still so popular?

The Vatican says Pope Francis' funeral will be held on Saturday, April 26, in front of St. Peter's Basilica, after the ...

The Vatican has released a series of images showing Pope Francis lying in an open coffin, taken hours after his death.

The Vatican has released first images of Pope Francis, showing him in his casket with the Vatican secretary of state praying over him.

Francis' death set off the process of allowing the faithful to pay their final respects, first for Vatican officials in the ...