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, 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 ...

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 ...

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

Families, seminarians and state Catholic conference executive joined the crowds converging on St. Peter’s Square to honor the ...

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

Carlos Acutis is set to become the first millennial saint. His canonization was moved to next Sunday in St. Peter's Square ...

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

Acutis was named “venerable” in 2018 after the church recognized his virtuous life, and his body was taken to a shrine in ...