Catholics from around Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire expressed both sorrow and gratitude for the late Pope ...

Pope Francis was the first pope to visit Iraq, a historic event still remembered by Chaldeans in metro Detroit who mourned his passing on Monday.

Many tend to read Bible passages like these and interpret the sea negatively, as dangerous and threatening. Such perceptions ...

American evangelicals love big statements—but we must first do the slow work of institution building and local discipleship.

And as I write this on the day after Easter, President Donald Trump owes an apology to about 2.3 billion Christians worldwide, while the Sedgwick County Republican Party owes the same to the ...

Can’t tell a conclave from a congregation? A brief guide to the language of selecting a new Pope - A change in popes is a ...

As Jorge Mario Bergoglio prepared to assume the papacy, he chose a new name: Francis. That choice was a tribute to St.

His public persona may have been the humble and patient father figure, but Francis spent his 12 years as pope reorganizing the Vatican bureaucracy — the Roman curia — with more than a touch of ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WBRC) - Catholics around the world are mourning the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, including ...

The test of these changes. — some of which were only finalized three years ago — will come in the closed-door power brokering that goes on around the conclave, which will elect a new pope. The process ...

STEUBENVILLE — News from the Vatican interrupted the stillness of Easter Monday, announcing the death of Pope Francis at 88 ...

This is Latin for ''having had mercy and choosing him'' — a phrase that Francis chose as his motto when he was elevated to bishop and kept as his papal seal. It was drawn from the homilies of St. Bede ...