In a solemn and majestic funeral on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica, the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday laid to rest Pope Francis, the first South American pope, whose simple style, pastoral ...

A simplified papal funeral will make a fitting farewell for a pontiff who just three days after his surprise election ...

On a glorious Roman spring day, Buddhists, Hindus and Sikhs, Lutherans, Anglicans and many expressions of the Orthodox Christian Church came together with 50 heads of state and 10 reigning monarchs to ...

They came from around the world to rejoice in the naming of the first millennial saint but ended up bidding farewell to Pope ...

The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic order founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola committed to spirituality and social action.

Francis' "no" to women's ordination is not just the exclusion of women from a Church role. It is an insupportable and blatant ...

It is impossible to understand  Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s legacy without accounting for the fact that the late pontiff belonged to a rebellious order.

Honorary Consul Ronnie Convery tells of the humanity of Pope Francis. He also notes his love of whisky and why he will long ...

Even though 86% of transgender Americans have health insurance, one in four reported being denied coverage for gender-affirming care in the 2015 and 2022 U.S. Transgender surveys. These denials can ...

Pope Francis’ wooden coffin was sealed on Friday night, in a private rite that officially ends three days of his body lying ...

Don Richard, a deacon at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Metairie, died on Monday, twenty minutes before Pope ...

There have been 266 popes in the Catholic Church's roughly 2,000-year history, which spans three millennia. With the death of Pope Francis, a series of formal events was immediately set into motion to ...