Around St. Peter’s Square, the pope offered services to the homeless and migrants, in ways that often did not go down well ...

The basilica is Assisi contains a cycle of more than two dozen frescoes illustrating crucial moments in St. Francis’ life — including the “spogliazione.” Painted by Giotto at the end of ...

Pope Francis passed away at 7:35 a.m. local time on Easter Monday, April 21, at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa ...

The world is mourning the loss of Pope Francis, who died on Monday morning, one day after he made an appearance from the balcony of St. Peter's basili ...

The first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church died on Monday after suffering a stroke and cardiac arrest.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, who died on Monday, had an informal, lighthearted speaking style, and sometimes he even ...

New Yorkers Lisset and Angel Alvarez, who were visiting Italy, captured one of the Pope's final moments in St. Peter's Square ...

Pope Francis ... to be buried at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. When he was elected in 2013, Pope Francis said he chose his name in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, the 13th-century ...

Christopher Furlong//Getty Images Pope Francis pictured shortly after his election as pope in 2013. He chose the name Francis in honor of St. Francis of Assisi ... Peter’s Basilica in 2015.

By moving the papacy out of the basilica and into prisons and refugee ... Cigoli’s “Imitation of Christ” (1599), depicting St. Francis of Assisi (via Wikimedia Commons) Returning to visual ...

Instead, he opted to be buried in Rome’s St. Mary Major Basilica. He also chose ... Jesuit and the first to take the name Francis, after St. Francis of Assisi. After a pope dies, they’re ...