Pope Francis, the first Latin-American pontiff, renowned for his outspoken advocacy for the poor and insistence on a more ...

Expect to hear cries of ‘santo subito’ (sainthood now) in St Peter’s Square as Holy Year pilgrims mourn Pope Francis. For ...

The King and Prime Minister have led tributes to Pope Francis, who has died aged 88.The Vatican announced that the pontiff, ...

Pope Francis, the 266th Bishop of Rome and Sovereign of the Vatican City, has died on Easter Monday. Bells tolled in church towers across Rome after the Vatican's announcement.

Pope Francis sought to make the church more welcoming, global and collegial, after his predecessors adopted more doctrinaire ...

We must look for him without ceasing,” the pope’s prepared text emphasized. “Because if he has risen from the dead, then he ...

Because Easter fell on the same day on the Julian and Gregorian calendars, meaning Catholic and Orthodox were celebrating on ...

As we celebrate Easter, let’s reflect on Jesus’ teachings and his call for his disciples to be awake to the world.

In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the ...