Easter, the holiest on the Christian calendar - Pope Francis doubled down on the defining theme of his papacy: mercy.

Despite holding the highest position in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis lived modestly, true to his Jesuit ideals.

Local leaders and advocates held a news conference in the Loop on Monday morning to speak out about recent staffing cuts and ...

Pope Francis, who died on the age of 88 on Easter Monday, had a special relationship with cinema going back to his childhood ...

He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing the feet of a Muslim prisoner, sinking to his hands and knees to implore ...

A change in popes—through death or resignation—is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the spiritual head of the global Catholic Church and ...

As the start of Lesbian Visibility Week coincides with Easter Monday, it's only right we asked a bunch of lesbians who their ...

An article in Biblical Archaeology Review piqued my reporting curiosity. A Bible professor suggested it was possible that ...

He was on the side of the people that really didn't have a lot of power in this world," Fr. Patrick Cahill said of Pope ...

Pope Francis walks in procession on the occasion of the Amazon synod at the Vatican, 7 October 2019. Pope Francis opened a three-week meeting on preserving the rainforest and ministering to its native ...

He was the first Pope from the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, and the first Pope to have been raised outside Europe since Pope Gregory III in the eighth century. It may be said that Pope ...

Pope Francis has died at the age of 88 and as the leader of the Catholic Church, his assets will be re-distributed in line ...