Pope Francis, the former Argentinian cardinal and ... USA TODAY's Cybele Mayes-Osterman, John Bacon, Susan Miller, Savannah Kuchar and Alex Perry contributed to this report.

Pope Francis was the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, head of state of the Vatican and proprietor in trust of the Vatican’s great collection of art and historic architecture.

(K.M. Chaudary/AP) Genali Nogales touches a painting of the late Pope Francis at the Basílica de San José de Flores, where he worshipped as a youth, following the Vatican’s announcement of his ...

A painting by Ewa Juszkiewicz in the foyer of Andrew Bolton’s New York home © Keith Oshiro The work of art that changed everything for me is Francis Bacon’s “screaming Pope”, after Diego Velázquez’s ...

The verse serves as a job description for each man chosen to occupy the office of St. Peter’s successor — most recently for Pope Francis ... with statues and paintings of Jesus that depict ...

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has died at age 88. A Jesuit priest known for championing the poor and migrants, the environment, and, to a certain extent, the LGBTQ community ...

A farewell note in memory of Pope Francis is seen taped outside the cathedral in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Juan Mabromata/AFP via Getty Images) A parishioner touches a painting of the pope at the ...

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Pope Francis, who died this morning at the ... In literature, music, and art, Francis’s tastes were anything but populist; his imagination was more thoroughly imbued with the spirit of German ...

From Biennale visits to calls for restitution, the late Pope Francis left an indelible mark on contemporary art and cultural ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- For six days in September 2015, Pope Francis made a historic visit to the United States, visiting some of the country's biggest cities and speaking to massive crowds of the ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series ... of Rome).After every foreign trip, Francis would go to the basilica to pray before the Byzantine-style painting that features an image of Mary ...