Archbishop José H. Gomez celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Friday honoring the ...

Pope Francis, who has died aged 88 after 12 years at the head of the Catholic Church, was probably the most famous Argentinian who ever lived. Born in 1936 as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis ...

What direction should the Catholic Church take under the next pope? The late pontiff’s emphasis on social and economic justice, advocacy for migrants and openness to debate on homosexuality and ...

Until 1903, when Pope Pius X took charge of the Holy See, a pope's organs were routinely removed after death and kept as relics at Rome's Church of Saints Anastasio and Vincent near the Trevi ...

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho's Catholic community gathered Wednesday at St. John's Cathedral in Boise to honor Pope Francis, who died on Easter Monday after leading the Catholic Church for 12 years.

As the Catholic Church ... Holy Spirit’s selection. According to the provisions of the Universi Dominici Gregis (The Lord's Whole Flock), the cardinals vote for the Bishop of Rome, also called the ...

In the Catholic Church, if you’re divorced, the first marriage must be annulled, which can be a lengthy and difficult process. Pope Francis relaxed those rules. Channel 2’s Candace McCowan ...

Christians from Gaza's only Catholic church have paid tribute to Pope Francis, who called them "every day" during the Israel-Hamas war. Speaking outside the Holy Family Church on Easter Monday ...

These are not things that she said yesterday, when the world’s in mourning for someone who’s been a very important leader for the Catholic Church ... “The Holy Father was one of the ...

As pontiff, Francis, who died Monday at age 88, sought to bring the Church closer to the people ... agreed to share responsibility for choosing Catholic bishops in China with the Communist ...

"Pope Francis stood for everything that we thought the Catholic church would never go towards." The Pope's death on Easter Monday came only a day after he appeared in the Vatican's St Peter's ...

"Heresies and other errors have in consequence spread through the Church ... the same Jesuit Catholic order that Francis belonged to. “That suggests the pope isn’t a Holy Father or an ...