As democratic values and alliances were being turned upside down, the pope was a consistent moral guidepost. Who can play that role now? By Jason Horowitz Reporting from Vatican City. As the world ...

“The Catholic world view, and I think this was espoused by Pope Francis, beautifully, like all of our great popes, was not left or right, it was up. Connecting from us to God, from God down to us.

But for all the emphasis Francis placed on modesty, his funeral, that of a reigning pope, was much larger than that of his predecessor, Benedict XVI, who had stunned the church and world when he ...

Were you to have asked Pope Francis to name his favorite book, he would probably have said the Bible. Asked for his favorite novel, however, he might have mentioned a dystopian thriller in which ...

The honor of delivering the first reading at Pope Francis’ funeral Mass on Saturday fell to Kielce Gussie, an American who works as a reporter with Vatican News.

Commentators were quick to assess the political fallout of Robert Francis Prevost’s election to become the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. Does Pope Leo XIV’s public criticism of ...

Pope Francis' visit to the Western Wall. During his 2014 visit to the Western Wall, the pontiff left a handwritten note calling for unity. “How happy I am that I was told: ‘Let us go to the ...

Francis’ approach to Christian-Muslim dialogue differed notably from his predecessors. While Pope John Paul II focused on intellectual exchange and theological dialogue , Francis emphasized that ...