The last pope to die during his tenure was Pope John Paul II in 2005. Here's what happened in the days and weeks that ...

Trump praised the pope at the start of Francis's papacy, in 2013. But relations soured during the 2016 election, when Francis ...

"Regardless of their partisan leanings, most U.S. Catholics regard Francis as an agent of change," Pew added. "Overall, about ...

Pope Francis called on the world and 1.4 billion Catholics to confront climate change. He brought attention to the issue but ...

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their ...

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli spent over four decades covering Rome. During her time, she covered the last three popes. But Poggioli ...

Yet ties between Pope Francis and Moscow strained amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In May of 2022, the Pope publicly ...

Kevin Farrell is the camerlengo, or acting head of the Vatican, until a new pope is elected. Here's what to know about ...

Pope Francis's death sets an ancient machinery into motion. Soon, with a puff of smoke, the last absolute monarchy in Europe ...

Pope Francis's death sets an ancient machinery into motion. Soon, with a puff of smoke, the last absolute monarchy in Europe ...

When Trump announced sweeping tariffs this month, he called it "Liberation Day." But there are fears that it may well have ...

Vilified by the Assad regime, these Nobel-nominated first responders operated only in rebel areas. Now their founder is in ...