Former BBC Rome correspondent David Willey reflexts on how the Vatican has transformed, as well as what its future holds ...

Meet the Irish-American Camerlengo and Italian dean who are in charge of administering the Church during this interim period.

He will go down in history as the 'pope for the marginalized,' a Catholic leader in Naples, said of Pope Francis ...

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza ...

Pope Francis sought to empower women and laity in synods, fueling conservatives' worry about LGBTQ+ inclusion and women's ...

The Vatican has released the first photos that show Pope Francis lying in state after the head of the Catholic church died on ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis' funeral will be held on April 26 at St. Peter's Basilica after the pontiff lies in state there ...

Navarrosa, who is currently writing his thesis on the pope’s 2016 encyclical 'Amoris Laetitia,' recalls meeting Francis in ...

Memorial Masses for Pope Francis are expected across the world on Tuesday. In the Philippines, people packed the main hall of ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

Pope Francis' death has set in motion the centuries-old process of finding a new leader for the Catholic Church.