The poor will be present on the footsteps of the Basilica of St. Mary Major where Francis will be buried April 26 following ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After an estimated 250,000 people had passed by the body of Pope Francis, lying in an open casket in ...

We are nearing the end of President Trump's second "First 100 Days," and the elation it brought to some and the defeatism and ...

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, died April 21 at age 88. Elected in 2013, he first greeted the world from St. Peter's Basilica as a bishop of Rome walking with his people. The cause of death ...

ROME (CNS) -- "The Virgin Mary told me, 'Prepare the tomb.'" That is what Pope Francis said Mary told him when he was discerning whether to be buried in the historic Marian church where his body will ...