All sports events scheduled for Easter Monday in Italy were postponed, including four Serie A games: Torino-Udinese, Cagliari ...

Global leaders offered condolences to the world’s Catholics and praised the pontiff’s commitment to the poor and marginalized ...

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88. As tributes pour in from around the world, the Vatican faces a transition.

Francis' death comes one day after the pope, 88, greeted Easter Sunday crowds in his popemobile. He had battled a respiratory ...

Serie A suspended Monday's slate of matches in response to the death of Pope Francis, the Italian soccer league announced.

The boy who would become Pope Francis was born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires on Dec. 17, 1936. Bookish, ...

After decades of conservative leadership, Francis tried to reset the course of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing ...

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, died Easter Monday after more than a decade leading the church. Here's what ...

Francis was a deeply religious child in Buenos Aires. The first pontiff from Latin America tried to create a more welcoming ...

The pope was released from a lengthy hospital stay less than a month ago for a life-threatening respiratory condition.