Despite accounting for only 10% of the world’s population, the U.S. and European Union exert outsized influence on global ...

Francis was more tolerant with another critic, the retired archbishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen. He excoriated the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and ...

He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

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 ...

He made his last public appearance on Easter Sunday — a day before his death — to bless thousands of people in St. Peter’s ...

The pope ministered with a charming, humble style. He had blessed thousands in St. Peter’s Square on Easter Sunday.

Bells tolled in churches from his native Argentina to the Philippines and across Rome as news spread around the world.

For weeks, Catholics throughout the globe worried about their Pope's health and prayed for him, and now Pope Francis has died ...