The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Scores of books by Francis, as well as about his life and papacy, portray the pope, who died on April 21, as compassionate ...

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell was seen sealing the door to ...

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Speculation is swirling about who could be the new leader of the Catholic church. But the secretive nature of papal elections ...

He aimed to open the doors to those of different sexual orientations, the poor, migrants and others left out by society.

Pope Francis, the unconventional and outspoken pontiff who inspired widespread devotion but riled traditionalists, died on ...

Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced the sad news that 88-year-old Pope Francis passed away at around ...