The names of a few U.S. bishops have surfaced as possible contenders for Pope including Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis' funeral will be held on April 26 at St. Peter's Basilica after the pontiff lies in state there ...

Tributes to Pope Francis pour in from around the world with Vatican set to published details of funeral and conclave ...

Pope Francis's death has elicited an outpouring of grief in Indonesia, with tributes in the world's largest Muslim-majority ...

The White House and Republicans are not shying away from battling with Democrats over the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died aged 88 He died of stroke and subsequent ...

Pope Francis brought attention to the Catholic Church in impoverished areas around the globe that are often ignored.

* The Sistine Chapel was first used for a conclave after the death of Sixtus IV in 1484. A number of conclaves have been held ...

The Holy See, which governs the Vatican City, generates money in a variety of ways, including through donations from around ...

Americans on the left and right are the most polarized they have been in the last 30 years. But nature, clean air and clean ...

In his landmark 2015 encyclical “Praised Be,” Pope Francis cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral ...