Francis aimed to reform the Catholic Church. This made him popular with believers and nonbelievers alike, but he drew criticism from conservative circles. Is that why several false accounts have taken ...

Francis X. Rocca covered the Vatican and global religion for The Wall Street Journal. A native of Washington, D.C., he has ...

This outpouring of emotion has been tinged with regret that during his 12-year papacy, Francis never returned home to visit ...

Chilean President Gabriel Boric, Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chavez and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have declared ...

Mr. @NicolasMaduro, you have said on numerous occasions that you want the Venezuelans back and free,” Bukele wrote. “Unlike ...

A search that would lead the author, born into a Methodist family, to join the Catholic Church and then the Orthodox Church in 2006. As a consequence, in his eyes, of excessive Cartesianism in a ...

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has proposed a prisoner exchange to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, offering the ...

Pope Francis’s death report, released Monday afternoon by the Vatican, indicated he died of a cerebral stroke, which caused ...

Several world leaders, including South Africa, Turkey, Iran and Nigeria, have hailed Pope Francis as a man who championed the ...

Several world leaders, including South Africa, Turkey, Iran and Nigeria, have hailed Pope Francis as a man who championed the ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa paid tribute on Monday to the late Pope Francis's "extraordinary life story" and praised his ...

World leaders remembered Pope Francis as "a beacon of compassion", reacting with sadness after the leader of the world's 1.4 ...