The President of Ireland said Pope Francis had “unfinished business” and that he hopes the next pope will build on the steps he was able to take during his tenure. Michael D Higgins will be among ...

Pope Francis, history's first pontiff from the Global South, has died at age 88 following a monthslong respiratory illness, ...

The first Latin American and Jesuit pope was determined to lead a more welcoming, pastoral and merciful Church outward to a ...

The history of Francis's papacy is certainly longer than his twelve years. A history further expanded by the last act of an ...

Clean Slate, the warm and deeply personal dramedy from Amazon Prime Video starring Laverne Cox and George Wallace, won’t be coming back for a second season.

Pope Francis, an energetic reformer who inspired widespread devotion from Catholics but riled traditionalists, died on Monday ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff and very popular among the faithful around the world but facing fierce ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Likely the artist’s final work, this 16th-century painting is a vast, darkly burnished depiction of Christ’s death that is ...

Elian Gonzalez returned to his Cuban father; Workers shout down Democrats, US union bureaucrats; Jordan annexes West Bank; ...