He articulated the mission just days after his 2013 election and it explained the name he chose as pope, honoring St. Francis of Assisi "who had ... of electing a new pope, a conclave that will ...

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I don’t think he’s the kind of man who sends coded messages,” Cardinal Michael Czerny says in this exclusive interview with ...

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. Francis suffered from chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man. He was admitted to a hospital Feb. 14 for a respiratory crisis that ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

There is no room in Augustine’s concept of authority for one who is self-seeking and in search of power over others,” he ...

A new biography traces the ascent of a man who made the postwar right at once urbane, combative, and camera-ready.

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

First-person seems most natural, for a diary, but this can transform the view. Internal storms appear more distant. You see ...