The 88-year-old became head of the Catholic Church on March 13, 2013, following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. He has ...

A 13-year-old was arrested on an attempted murder charge on Friday in the shooting of a 56-year-old female relative near ...

Deputies of Pope County were dispatched to a residence in the 1800 block of Pollard Cemetery Road, after receiving a report ...

Since the 1800s, there have been 16 popes. Of those popes, Francis has the ninth-longest papacy so far.Over the past 200 years, the longest papacy reign was that of Pope Pius IX, who served over ...