Washington Post writer Elizabeth Tenety responded to a wave of liberal acclaim for the new pope with a memorably succinct ...

THE Pope’s successor will be selected by a Conclave in an ancient and secret process that has remained unchanged for hundreds ...

Allentown Bishop Alfred Schlert said Pope Francis “reminded the faithful that the Church is a hospital for the sinner and not ...

Pope Francis, the 266th pontiff in the Roman Catholic Church, died at 88 years old after a stroke led to heart failure, ...

The pope suffered various ailments in his 12-year papacy. In the weeks before his death, he had been treated for chronic lung ...

In many ways, Pope Francis embodied a tension at the heart of Catholicism in the 21st century: too liberal for some Catholics ...