Pope Francis' death, nearly 20 years after John Paul II's, marked the end of two distinct yet similar papacies. Fox News' ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and ...

King Abdullah II and Queen Rania of Jordan each shared messages honoring Pope Francis in the wake of the news of his death on ...

Ireland has been blessed to host two papal visits in the last 50 years. The visits bookended a period in a country that had undergone significant change in its Catholic faith. Comparing Pope Francis’ ...

John Paul II gave voice to the oppressed and reminded us why moral clarity matters. Sadly, that clarity was sometimes hard to find in the papacy of Pope Francis. Francis died Monday, aged 88.

George Weigel, the conservative Catholic commentator and biographer of Pope John Paul II, opined in a column shortly after Francis’ election that the sole disappointment in John Paul and Pope ...

Much of the coverage of Pope Francis' legacy on Monday (April 21) dwelt with the ways he differed from his predecessors, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. It is natural to compare a pope to ...

George Weigel, the conservative Catholic commentator and biographer of Pope John Paul II, opined in a column shortly after Francis’ election that the sole disappointment in John Paul and Pope ...

and will only change to Francis I if there is a future Francis II. His death begins the official nine days of mourning, called the Novendiale, and the Vatican will function in a period called sede ...