ROME, Italy — Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) led a bipartisan delegation of United States lawmakers to Pope Francis' funeral at ...

Pope Francis was a pope for our time. When so many practiced the politics of dehumanization, he stood for our common humanity ...

With more than 61 million Catholics and the second-highest number of cardinals after Italy, a guessing game is emerging on ...

French president Emmanuel Macron has declared that he will "increase the pressure" on Russia in the coming days in order for ...

Those touched − figuratively and literally − by Pope Francis, the "People's Pope," during his only visit to the U.S. reflect ...

Ten U.S. cardinals are among those who will gather in Rome to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died Monday.

Flags across the United States and at U.S. facilities worldwide will be flown at half-staff to honor the memory of His ...

A papal conclave, the election of a new pope, tends to begin 15-20 days after a papal vacancy. Black or white smoke indicates ...

Cardinal Christophe Pierre, papal nuncio to the United States, reflected on Pope Francis’s legacy and the evangelizing ...

After a tumultuous papacy, Pope Francis leaves the Chair of Peter with faithful American Catholics anticipating a return to orthodoxy.

In the wake of Pope Francis' death, many names have been thrown out for his potential successor — but experts believe that ...

Elected pope in 2013, Francis was known as a humble reformer who worked to make the Church more inclusive and was concerned with the poor. Here's a look at Francis' time in the United States ...