Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill reflects on popes of the past and highlights the papacy's cultural ...

Pope Francis’s devoted faithful will likely soon be hollering for the late, humble, huddled-masses-loving pontiff to be ...

The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to ...

What happens during the interregnum period? Tom Reese, S.J., explains the time between one pope's death and the succession of the next pope.

Tens of thousands of people are expected at the funeral, including Catholic mourners, cardinals and world leaders.

ROME: Two papal tailors and no conclave orders. The conclave that begins next Wednesday to elect a successor for Pope Francis ...

In a historic moment characterized by autocrats and would-be autocrats, Francis was the antithesis of a strongman.

Oh, how I would like a poor church, and for the poor.” Pope Francis I was half-way through the autobiography of Pope Francis ...

in a nod to his resemblance to Pope John XXIII, the round-faced reforming pope of the early 1960s. Pope Francis once quipped ...