ROANOKE, Va. – Today, St. Elias Maronite Catholic Church hosted a mass to honor the Pope’s memory on Easter Monday. During the service, the church displayed a picture of Pope Francis as a tribute.

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church's 266th pontiff, was the first Jesuit to lead the church in its nearly 2,000-year history. More than 200,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square April 26 to ...

So interesting, in fact, that God, in his wisdom, has decided to call one Pope home and let the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church choose another. The death of Pope Francis ends, or at least ...

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff, has died, the Vatican announced on April 21, 2025. He was 88. Francis had served as pope for 12 eventful years, after being ...

A Catholic priest died in Kansas after being shot at his church’s rectory in an incident a fellow pastor told Fox News Digital has left his community in a "state of shock." Gary Hermesch ...

He was the only one I knew of and, like many children raised in the Catholic tradition, I understood his importance in abstract terms. I knew he was the head of the Catholic Church, a figure of ...

Although some interpretations of the councils are debated among Christian faith communities, the Catholic Church, Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches, and most traditional Protestant ...

He did not overcome the divisions in the church within the rich world. Rather, he troubled Catholic conservatives without making the changes that progressives wanted, creating a sense of ...

This process is called a conclave, and it is how the Roman Catholic Church chooses its next pope after a previous pope dies or retires. Here’s what you need to know about the process.

“This is a painful end to a life-sustaining partnership the Catholic Church in the U.S. has had with our government and that has spanned decades across administrations of both political partie ...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...