The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to choose the new pope. Here's what happens next.

Pope Francis became the church’s 266th in 2013 when the papal conclave elected him after the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI ...

Thousands flooded through the walls of Vatican City as a procession of cardinals and pallbearers took the body of the late ...

Thousands of people have begun filing through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis at the start ...

I hope the Cardinals are inspired to pick the next pope who will also live and inspire these traits, and not a Pope who is ...

Peter was the first pontiff of the Catholic church, and several popes have been considered "great" in the interim.

Archbishop Bernard Hebda says Monday's Mass will be the first of nine traditional Masses offered for the death of a pope.

Pope Francis’s death on Monday launches the centuries-old Catholic ritual of mourning and selecting a new leader of the ...

With a long history stretching back to ancient Greece, Thessalonica (known today as Thessaloniki) is Greece’s second-largest ...

One of the greatest experts on the biblical and historical figure of Jesus was a journalist for this newspaper, Juan Arias, a ...

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith”. These words written by St. Paul in his ...

Saint Paul authored more epistles in the New Testament than any other apostle. Most of Christian theology builds on his ...