It has now been confirmed that Ireland will be represented at the funeral of Pope Francis by President Micheal D. Higgins and ...

Pope Francis's death triggers nine days of official mourning, called the Novendiales, with the funeral and burial typically ...

The Vatican said in a statement later Monday that Francis died of a stroke that put him into a coma and led to irreversible ...

He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing the feet of a Muslim prisoner, sinking to his hands and knees to implore ...

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 change, ...

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

Pakistan has confirmed its seventh polio case of the year after the virus was detected in a child from the northwest ...

Global tributes are being paid after Pope Francis died of a stroke and heart failure on Easter Monday at Casa Santa Marta, a guesthouse at the Vatican. Follow for live updates ...

Church leaders across New England praised his humility. Francis “constantly reminds us of those that get overlooked ,” Boston ...