Pope Francis, elected in 2013, was the first Jesuit and Latin American pope, serving for 12 years until his death at 88 on ...

Pope Francis honors St. Francis of Assisi's legacy of peace, poverty, and respect for creation in Assisi, Italy.

Pope Francis, like all Catholic priests, vowed to celibacy and thus was not married or had children. Here's what we know ...

St. Francis is the medieval Catholic saint whose spirituality focused on loving the poor, creation, and peace.

At his funeral, Pope Francis was remembered and venerated as a pontiff with "strength and serenity" who modeled his pontificate on St. Francis of Assisi. The dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni ...

A Binghamton author is out with a new book that found fact often mirroring the fiction he was writing. Roger Brooks has ...

Pope Francis’ complete name was Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was born in 1936. He served as Pope for 12 years, from March 13, ...

Francis' "no" to women's ordination is not just the exclusion of women from a Church role. It is an insupportable and blatant ...

A Mass for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis was celebrated at the Cathedral of Christ the King on April 24.

G.K. Chesterton wrote of St. Francis of Assisi, But after all, this man was a man and not half a dozen men. What seems inconsistency to you did not seem inconsistency to him. We should keep this same ...

Artist Freiman Stoltzfus works on a mural titled “Saint Francis in Lancaster” on the wall of the cafeteria inside Mary ...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio became pope in 2013, he chose a name no pontiff had ever taken: Francis. It was inspired by St ...