Image Courtesy of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception By Zachary Lichter As Catholics around the world celebrated Easter with joy and happiness, things took an emotional ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...

The late pontiff was laid out in red robes, a bishop's pointed miter and a rosary entwined ... toward Francis, having forsaken him out of devotion to one of his predecessors, St. John Paul II.

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — More than 250,000 people paid their last respects to Pope Francis over three days of public viewing by ...