World leaders are paying tribute with the Taoiseach saying Francis’s papacy was marked by a commitment to ‘compassion, peace, ...

But Francis was a much more complex character, with a great fondness for personal authority alongside more participative ...

The Vatican has announced that the Pope is dead. A series of arcane rites now occur and then the complex process of naming a ...

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