Pope Francis, Latin America’s first pontiff, died at age 88 after a cerebral stroke. Francis stressed humility over hubris ...

Pope Francis, who recently survived a bout of double pneumonia, has died aged 88, 12 years after he was elected during the ...

Pope Francis has died, the Vatican announced on Monday—after months of health ailments, including a bout of severe pneumonia—ending a more than decade-long reign where he pushed to make the Roman ...

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Pope Francis' death Monday at the age of 88 comes after the Catholic leader experienced a number of health issues in recent years. Francis died at 7:35 a.m. Monday at his residence, the Vatican said.

Pope Francis' funeral has been scheduled for Saturday morning at 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. EDT) at St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican announced Tuesday after a meeting of the College of Cardinals. The ...

Bells rang out over the hilltop town of Assisi on the night of March 22 as Franciscan friars closed the monthlong public ...

As news of Pope Francis’s death spreads, we look back at the simple foods he cherished—and how meals became part of his global message. Pope Francis is presented with a cake by Valentina Alazraki, ...

Pope Francis, the charismatic and conciliatory Argentine who moved to liberalize the Catholic Church, dramatically reorienting the papacy’s posture toward homosexuality and modestly expanding the role ...

Nearly 400,000 people are expected to venerate the saint’s relics while on public display through March 22. Pilgrims venerate St. Francis of Assisi's relics in the lower church of the Basilica of St.

Pope Francis greets crowds in St. Peter's Square in 2014. Alfredo Borba via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was 12 years old, he sent a love letter to a girl named ...

Students who choose to study forestry at Francis Marion University could soon have access to an 8,500-acre “outdoor classroom ...