At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

I never knew how much I wanted to go to Rome until I got there.

With Pope Francis' passing, the Roman Catholic Church is focused on electing his replacement. Here's what that means.

Italians got the next best thing in Pope Francis — the Argentine son of Italian immigrants. But many here wondered whether one of their own would ever again sit on the throne of St. Peter. Now some ...

In the coming days, the pope will be mourned, eulogized and laid to rest as the head of the Catholic church, bishop of Rome and sovereign leader of Vatican City Then, the College of Cardinals ...

Francis brought the popular archbishop of Manila to Rome to head the Vatican’s missionary evangelization office, which serves the needs of the Catholic Church in much of Asia and Africa.

A single white rose was placed on the tomb that said "Franciscus" – the pope's name in Latin – inside the Santa Maria ...

Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic Church's leader for the last 12 years ... Each day, an honorary Mass is celebrated for the deceased pope in Rome, led by a different cardinal every day.

While there are those who want to back away from Francis' outreach there is one unalterable fact: When the world's Catholic ...

As pre-conclave lobbying intensifies, top Vatican diplomat Pietro Parolin has become a point of convergence for cardinals looking to restore Vatican’s primacy.

Another issue: He had a rapprochement with China, which was controversial, even among Chinese Catholics, where he … agreed to ...

Nathaniel’s wife, who escaped with their two children, told AsiaNews that her husband was shot in the head by terrorists ...