More than 61,000 people have visited the basilica so far to pay their respects to Pope Francis, who died April 21.

President Trump’s presence at the Vatican funeral marks a rare moment of reverence amid a complex relationship with the late ...

The body of Pope Francis is now lying in state in St. Peter's Basilica. The pontiff’s mortal remains, lying in an open wooden ...

Dr. Sergio Alfieri coordinated Francis' five-week hospital treatment for double pneumonia and continued to oversee the pope's ...

Pope Francis was a pastor, first and foremost, and a good pastor teaches. Any pope's most enduring legacy is the body of ...

Francis' 12-year reign saw small steps advancing women in the church. We may not know for years what the aims of a new papacy will be.

When a pope had the audacity to name himself after St. Francis — a man of peace, simplicity and creation — I began to dream then of an environmental encyclical.

It is natural to compare a pope to his predecessors. But many of the comparisons being made now betray an ideological edge ...

Maria Bambina Sr. Susana Vanni says Argentina's divisions, then Pope Francis' health, likely tilted against the longed-for ...

Three hours after the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had died on April 21, the bells of Notre-Dame de Paris, the cathedral majestically restored after an epic fire in 2019, tolled 88 chimes in ...

"Some say he did not do enough; others criticize him for even meeting with people like me," said one transgender Catholic.

Ines San Martin is an Argentine journalist writing for OSV News from Rome. She is vice president of communications at the ...