Pope Francis shifted attitudes. He has changed the church," says one mourner who stood outside the funeral proceedings.

Follow live coverage from Pope Francis's funeral as world leaders gather in Rome. Francis died on Easter Monday after 13 ...

Jacob Oshodi is an outstanding Benin man. Or perhaps I should re-phrase this opening remark thus: Jacob Oshodi is one of the ...

Pope Francis, the charismatic and conciliatory Argentinian who moved to liberalize the Roman Catholic Church, dramatically ...

The Vatican said Francis, the first pope from Latin America, had died after a stroke, and revealed that his will requested a simple tomb in Rome.

Learning of the April 21 death of Pope Francis, Archbishop Bernard Hebda of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis said he planned to celebrate Mass for the repose of the soul of the pope at noon ...

The Argentinian pontiff was a powerful progressive voice in world politics, the first Jesuit priest to be spiritual leader of ...

Preaching that priests should be shepherds ... by the church to be living in a state of adultery — to receive Holy Communion. Such decisions, as with the brief blessings he authorized for ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church's teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in ...

The decision by Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to reject the lavish red slippers of his office was widely ...