Judeo-Christian brotherhood is built on the value of freedom. And the first freedom is the right to defend life. Fiamma ...

Albino Luciani from Italy, who became Pope John Paul I in 1978, was Known as "The Smiling Pope" and his 33-day reign ended amid controversy and theories of foul play.

Over the centuries, the outcome of conclaves has been impossible to predict. But if the cardinals named by Francis vote ...

Like the Second Vatican Council, he proved the Church to be as human as it is divine. On Easter Monday the Vatican announced ...

Pope Francis’ death has initiated carefully choreographed proceedings that will culminate in the election of a new pontiff.

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church's first Latin American leader, died on Monday (Apr 21), and a conclave will be held next ...

In Africa, a person of Pope Francis’ moral caliber and spiritual substance holds the coveted designation of “ancestor,” whose ...

News - Pope Francis, the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church and the first from Latin America, passed away on Easter ...

Few things are as carefully choreographed in the Catholic Church as the period between two popes. The time of the "empty chair," as the interregnum is referred to, consists of three stages.

A look at nine cardinals being talked about as "papabili" to succeed Pope Francis, whose death at the age of 88 on Monday.

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday aged 88 following a stroke that led to a coma and heart failure, the Vatican said ...

Pope Francis died of a stroke and irreversible heart failure, according to the death certificate released by the Vatican.