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The Holy See has announced the details of Pope Francis ' funeral and the events honoring the life of the 266th pontiff of the ...
Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...
Pope Francis died on Monday, April 21. American flags are to be flown at half-staff until the day of interment. Here's what ...
Peter was the first pontiff of the Catholic church, and several popes have been considered "great" in the interim.
Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Francis loved soccer and tango, once worked as a bar doorman and was known to shun the pomp of ...
When Pope Francis sat with his head in his hands and listened to accounts of clerical sexual abuse for an hour longer than ...
The plight of migrants was one of Pope Francis’ top priorities. In 2013, the newly elected pontiff made his first pastoral ...
For months, the pontiff spoke by telephone almost every night with people sheltering in a Catholic church in the battered ...
When Francis became the first Latin American pope in 2013, many hoped he would reverse the Roman Catholic Church’s decline in ...