It has now been confirmed that Ireland will be represented at the funeral of Pope Francis by President Micheal D. Higgins and ...

For months, the pontiff spoke by telephone almost every night with people sheltering in a Catholic church in the battered ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

The pope's death comes one day after Francis, 88, greeted Easter Sunday crowds in his popemobile. He had battled a ...

The $1.6 million cuts are just a fraction of the grants canceled by the National Endowment for the Humanities in recent weeks ...

Pope Francis’ funeral will be a more modest event, after the pontiff broke with longstanding Vatican tradition to simplify ...

World leaders have been paying tribute following the pontiff’s death and preparations are now under way for his funeral.

The Gaza Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying that thousands of people missing under ...

Israeli attacks include the bombing of a tent camp in Gaza City that caused a fire and killed at least four people.

Pope Francis has died at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as he ...

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, has died on Easter Monday, ...