Pope Francis' successor will face a litany of challenges, from the place of women and the LGBTQ community in the Catholic Church to diplomatic challenges in a conflict-riven world. Unity Uniting a ...

In the wake of Pope Francis’s death and Trump’s return to power, fears of civilizational decline abound. But Italian ...

A funeral for a pope is always an international affair, but the one for Pope Francis led to U.S. President Donald Trump and ...

The late pontiff was first Jesuit, the first Latin American, and first and last a priest, walking beside people on their journey of faith.

A week ago, Catholics around the world lost arguably the most progressive pope in the church's recent history.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he doubts Russia's Vladimir Putin wants to end his war in Ukraine, expressing new skepticism that a peace deal can be reached soon. Only a day earlier, Trump ...

Virginia executed a condemned killer, Timothy Spencer, in the first case in which DNA testing was used to obtain a conviction ...

ROME (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday paid his respects to Pope Francis, occupying a front-row seat in sunlit St.

Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, setting off a series of centuries-old rituals to select a new leader of the Catholic ...

Ten U.S. cardinals are among those who will gather in Rome to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died Monday.

Around 250,000 mourners flooded the streets of Rome to bid farewell to Pope Francis, widely known as the "People's Pope," at ...