Catholic Standard

Pope Francis’s message at World Youth Day in Brazil sparked Deacon Mariano’s call to priesthood

An experience during World Youth Day at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2013 helped inspire Federico José Mariano to follow a call ...

Vance: I felt awful meeting Pope Francis hours before his death

JD Vance has admitted he felt “awful” for meeting Pope Francis just hours before his death. The US vice-president, writing in ...

Live updates: Pope Francis is buried at St. Mary Major Basilica

Francis' coffin reached St. Mary Major Basilica, his chosen burial place, following Mass in the morning at St. Peter's Square ...
America Magazine

Pope Francis remembered by those who knew him

As white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel chimney, Sister Nathalie Becquart’s phone rang. It was her brother, calling to announce the birth of his fourth child, Céleste. At the same time, Jorge ...

What to Know About Pope Leo's Journey to Spain—and How It Honors the Late Pope Francis

Leo will meet with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. As vocal critics of the Iran war, they have both incurred the wrath ...

Vatican says Pope Francis died after cerebral stroke

Pope Francis, Latin America’s first pontiff, died at age 88 after a cerebral stroke. Francis stressed humility over hubris ...
America Magazine

What photographing Pope Francis over the years taught me about him—and the Holy Spirit

Pope Francis listens as hundreds of Jewish, Christian and Muslim children sing for him and President Shimon Peres May 26, 2014, at the presidential residence in Jerusalem. Credit: J.D. Long ...
National Catholic ReporterOpinion

Editorial: Pope's AI encyclical is well received, but its work has just begun

"Magnifica Humanitas is ultimately asking for one very simple, yet very difficult result: conversion. And Leo is not ...
The Frederick News-Post

Blessed by Pope Francis, a boy with cerebral palsy became a symbol of grace

Amid the hullabaloo of his first trip to the United States as pontiff, Pope Francis suddenly asked his driver to stop. The pope had just landed at the Philadelphia airport, ...