As I sat among the more than 200,000 people who came to Rome to grieve the loss and celebrate the life of Pope Francis, one word kept running through my mind − mercy. I thought of the pope’s ...

Pope Francis' first official trip, soon after he took the helm of the Catholic Church in 2013, set the tone for what was to come. He chose to visit the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa ...

April 26, 2025 • It's a day of remembrance, mourning and celebration as thousands gather in Rome to pay their respects and say farewell to Pope Francis. April 25, 2025 • Pope Francis' funeral ...

Pope Francis, celebrated as a humble yet forceful pontiff, died on April 21 leaving behind a rich legacy of inclusion and activism. His leadership – of over some 1.4 billion Catholics globally ...

Pope Francis traveled around the world during his 12-year papacy, stopping in 68 countries with 47 Apostolic Visits but never returned to his native Argentina. Francis, the former archbishop of ...

From 11 am on Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of faithful Catholics will be able to bid farewell to Pope Francis in St Peter's Basilica, where the pontiff's body will be on display until Friday.

Numerous leaders will travel to Vatican City, the papal enclave surrounded by Rome, for the funeral services of Pope Francis. The beloved religious head died at the age of 88 on Easter Monday ...

Pope Francis’s funeral will be livestreamed on YouTube on the official Vatican channel, Vatican Media, which you can watch here. Additionally, every major cable news network as well as the ...

Pope Francis’s devoted faithful will likely soon be hollering for the late, humble, huddled-masses-loving pontiff to be fast-tracked to sainthood, experts said Tuesday. But his fans should ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In a solemn ceremony in St. Peter’s Square, political and religious leaders joined a crowd of thousands in mourning the death of Pope Francis at his funeral Mass.

Three of the five popes before Francis have become saints, but merely serving as pontiff is no longer a guarantee of canonization. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Vatican City Although three ...

Former Secretary of State John Kerry claimed Friday that the late Pope Francis expressed private frustration over human inaction on dealing with climate change, even rolling his eyes. Kerry ...