Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

Cardinals were due to meet on Tuesday to plan Pope Francis' funeral, which leaders from around the world will attend ahead of ...

With the death of Pope Francis, announced by the Vatican on Monday, Roman Catholics around the globe will start speculating ...

Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms and made it his mission to change the perception of the Catholic ...

Pope Francis’ transformative vision for the American church made it more open, but also energized conservative resistance ...

The dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, sent a letter to all cardinals — electors and non — on ...

Pope Francis’s tenure was punctuated by repeated clashes with American political leaders and sweeping efforts to install more ...

On March 13, 2013, Francis succeeded Pope Benedict XVI, who was the first pope to retire in six centuries. Francis became the ...

His critics were fellow clergy as well as elected officials in the ascendant wing of the American Catholic political realm.

Juan Carlos Cruz, a victim of clerical sexual abuse and an openly gay Vatican advisor, remembers Pope Francis’ monumental ...

He was a populist leader, often referred to as the "People's Pope." As pontiff, Francis, who died Monday at age 88, sought to ...

Pope Francis, spiritual leader of the world's nearly 1.5 billion Catholics, died of a stroke at the age of 88. Seth Doane has ...