Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming Vatican conclave at which ...

COMMENTARY: Pope Francis’ successor should address four main aspects: persecution, social doctrine, missionary withering and ...

Though Francis didn’t make major changes to the conclave, his outreach to what he called “peripheries’’ leaves an imprint ...

ROME — They don’t have a vote in the election of a pope, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female religious orders ...

Pope Francis was an elder already when he began his papacy. His life and his service hold valuable lessons for all whose ...

Thousands gathered for a massive Mass outside the Metropolitan Cathedral in Buenos Aires to remember the life and legacy ...

At age 16, Ana María Careaga was pregnant and kidnapped during the regime of terror. Her story is one Pope Francis never ...

Argentines bid farewell to Pope Francis on April 26, holding a massive open-air mass in front of the cathedral where he ...

Argentines bid farewell to Pope Francis on Saturday, holding a massive open-air mass in front of the cathedral where he ...

Francis, who came from a middle-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires, became known as the Jesuit priest who rode the city’s ...

As millions mourn worldwide, those in Pope Francis' hometown reflect on his roots in Flores, Argentina, his work among the ...

Although he never visited Argentina, Francis returned to South America when he visited Brazil in the first months of his ...