VATICAN CITY (AP) — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” ...

They believed he was going out of his way to isolate and suppress a thriving stream of the church, where Masses are often packed with young families. “It’s a very small cohort, but the ...

(AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file ... his name and moral authority to a book that had all the appearances of being a counterweight to the Francis’ own teaching. Francis dismissed Benedict’s ...

(Michael Sohn/AP) The 70-year-old Italian has ... and moral authority to a book that had all the appearances of being a counterweight to Francis’s own teaching. Francis dismissed Benedict ...

Francis “always stood by those who need it most: the poor, refugees, the young, the elderly ... CNN’s Elise Hammond, Michael Rios, Sharon Braithwaite, Catherine Nicholls, Barbie Latza Nadeau ...