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

Before becoming the first pope from the Americas, Jorge Mario Bergoglio worked as a bar bouncer and janitor in Buenos Aires. This is the story of how a son of Italian immigrants reshaped the Catholic ...

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, and he was leaving the ...

A priest of the Archdiocese of San Antonio who was "found guilty of schism" has been removed from the clerical state and excommunicated, according to the archbishop of the archdiocese.

President Donald Trump ordered flags to fly at half-staff for one week amid Dolly Parton’s death — a period longer than what ...