As the world rushed to pay tribute to Pope Francis following his death, the response has been comparatively muted in China – ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy See after the death of one pope and before the election of another. They ...

Irish-American Cardinal Kevin Farrell becomes acting head of Vatican after Pope Francis' death, overseeing key financial and ...

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

An anonymous benefactor will pay for the cost of Pope Francis’s funeral, the Vatican has said. “The expenses for the ...

The world is mourning Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday aged 88 from a cerebral stroke and subsequent heart failure.

President Donald Trump ordered all federal and state flags to be flown at half-staff to show respect for Pope Francis and ...

Church bells tolled in mourning. Well-wishers flocked into pews. Tributes to Pope Francis poured in from around the world on ...

"We're going to miss him. He was a great pope and a great leader," Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico John Wester said.

A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” It implies the sacred ...

Pope Francis’ cause of death was a stroke, which led to a coma and ultimately, irreversible cardiocirculatory collapse, ...

Worshippers will flock to the Vatican in the coming days to farewell Pope Francis, including the Cardinals who will elect his successor. Former representative to the Holy See, Sir David Moxon, says ...