The conclave to select the new pontiff will contain an unusually large number of British cardinals, three of whom are outside contenders for the top job itself. Catherine Pepinster reveals how they mi ...

The message that shone through Francis’s provisions for his departure was that the true place of his church was on the ...

When conservative Pope Benedict XVI stepped down in 2013, citing frailty of body, the Catholic world braced for a like-minded ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re blesses the coffin as he leads the funeral Mass of Pope Francis, in Saint Peter's Square, at ...

Emotional tributes to the popular Pope Francis came amid a diplomatic scramble to meet with the U.S. president.

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In a solemn and majestic funeral that ended moments ago, the Roman Catholic Church laid to rest Pope Francis, the first South ...

Jorge Bergoglio enters history as the first American Pope. During his time heading the Catholic Church, he reformed Vatican ...

A troubled world was united at the funeral of Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square, where most of the world’s heads of state ...

As tributes poured in for Pope Francis, two Filipino cardinals, both chosen from the “peripheries,” gave personal reflections ...

The funeral of pope Francis today is another landmark in the long history of the Roman Catholic Church, and also a spectacle ...