Audrey Carville hears from the former Irish President Dr Mary McAleese about Pope Francis and the challenges for his ...

Ahead of Sunday's service, the young crowds pressed down the main boulevard through Rome towards the Vatican. Shouts of "viva ...

Editor ’ s Note: On April 27, 2025, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, primary celebrant of the second day of mourning on the Pope ...

Pope Francis used the words 'gay' and 'transgender' and met with LGBTQ+ people on many occasions. His impact cannot be ...

The late pontiff was first Jesuit, the first Latin American, and first and last a priest, walking beside people on their journey of faith.

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary ...

Pope Francis, the late head of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City, died aged 88 on April 21. Within days of ...

Murray Chatlain, recently installed as archbishop of the Archiocese of Winnipeg, says reconciliation with Indigenous people ...

With Pope Francis laid to rest, all eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within ...

Approximately 250,000 people followed the mass from the square or nearby on giant screens. The rest lined the route of the ...

Will Asia soon have its first Pope? - Luis Antonio Tagle from Philippines is in contention to succeed Francis as pontiff ...

Trump is only the second sitting U.S. president to attend a papal funeral — and comes against the backdrop of the U.S.’s increasingly isolationist posture.