Mourners are gathering in Vatican City and lining the streets of Rome to give a final send-off to Pope Francis, who will be ...

Although there are many more women in the Vatican than in previous papacies, Bergoglio did not introduce any changes to ...

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’ ...

Despite the outcry of traditionalists who fomented for a smaller but “purer” church, Pope Francis was willing to “ make a ...

It meant a lot to me to see him, he gave us so much,” said one woman who waited in line to file past the pontiff’s casket.

Throughout his papacy, Francis took steps to appoint and integrate women into leadership roles in the Vatican.

After so many people lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state at St. Peter's Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open ...

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he inherited: The Catholic Church still rejected same-sex marriage and condemned any sexual relations between gay or ...