Following the death of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s most senior officials will meet to begin discussions on choosing ...

Peruvian nun Alba Socola waited in line for almost five hours with thousands of other Catholics on Wednesday to enter St.

Thousands flooded through the walls of Vatican City as a procession of cardinals and pallbearers took the body of the late ...

Learning of the April 21 death of Pope Francis, Archbishop Bernard Hebda of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis said he planned to celebrate Mass for the repose of the soul of the pope at noon ...

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Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next ...

Maria Pia Caruso travelled to Rome from her hometown in northern Italy after she learned Pope Francis had died at age 88, to ...

No one knows who the world's Catholic cardinals will choose to succeed Pope Francis as the new leader of the global Catholic ...

Discover the meaning behind conclave, Camerlengo and more terms used as the Catholic Church prepares for a new leader ...

Cathedral of Saint John Berchmans Shreveport held a memorial mass Monday, mourning and paying tribute to the life of Pope ...

The measure will “[permit] a terminally ill individual who is an adult resident of Delaware to request and self-administer medication to end the individual's life." ...

Asked once what gave him hope, he spoke not of theology or politics, but of people — heroic mothers, men with dreams, women ...