Nowadays, many faithful choose to bow and kiss the papal ring. However, Francis and Benedict XVI before him have tried to discourage the practice of kissing the pope's ring or hand when the pope ...

Nowadays, many faithful choose to bow and kiss the papal ring. However, Francis and Benedict XVI before him have tried to discourage the practice of kissing the pope's ring or hand when the pope ...

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy -- Pope Leo XIV arrived in the papal summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo on Sunday to start a six-week ...

Pope Francis met with Presidents Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden during his time leading the Catholic Church. ... 88, to serve as the pope following Pope Benedict XVI in March 2013.

Francis cut a modest and almost deferential figure in his first hours as pope on March 13, 2013, when he greeted the crowd gathered below his balcony in St. Peter’s Square with a bow.

His elevation as pontiff was a break from the doctrinaire, conservative emphasis brought by his predecessors, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II. Francis quickly set a new tone — he ...

Pope Francis, whose warm, humble, ... Pope Francis, right, hugs Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2014. (Gregorio Borgia / Associated Press) His rise within the ranks was steady.

Pope Francis, who had a cameo in the feature film 'Beyond the Sun' and was the subject of the documentary 'Pope Francis: A Man of His Word,' has died at 88, one day after Easter Sunday.

Well, Pope Francis and Pope Benedict were very different people. Pope Benedict, of course, was an academic. He was a scholar, a writer of books and a very complex theology.

Francis presides over the funeral Mass for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square. This was the first time in more than 200 years that a pope participated in his predecessor’s funeral.