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

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 ...

Pope Francis, 88, died of a stroke and heart failure, the Vatican said. Francis was last seen Sunday when he gave the ...

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

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

His death will now open a debate about the future direction of the Catholic Church ... Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro remembered the pope as a defender of marginalized communities ...

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 ...

News of death of Pope Francis moves many in Latin America; Personalities such as Lionel Messi and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ...

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