Pope Francis

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis died April 21 after suffering a stroke and heart failure, said the director of Vatican City State’s department of health services. The pope had …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Cardinals already present in Rome and those who were able to get to the city after Pope Francis’ death April 21 held their first meeting at …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The funeral Mass of Pope Francis will be celebrated April 26 in St. Peter’s Square, the Vatican announced. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College …

Our Sunday Visitor (OSV) joins the church and the world in mourning the passing of Pope Francis, the 265th successor of St. Peter.

Issues of extreme poverty, homelessness, mental illness, forced migration, climate change and war inspired Pope Francis “to call for a more merciful, charitable, just and other-centered world,” said the president …

“Pope Francis yearned for the Church’s message of mercy to be ever present among marginalized people, those on the existential and geographical peripheries of society,” says Alberta bishop.

(OSV News) — Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires made history with his election on March 13, 2013, becoming the first Argentine and first Latin American to become pope.  As …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis’ funeral rites, like those for any pope or any Christian, are meant to “reinforce the hope and witness to the faith” that those who …

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Elected in 2013 with a clear mandate to reform the Roman Curia, Pope Francis completed the project with his apostolic constitution, “Preach the Gospel,” nine years …

The Jubilee of Adolescents, scheduled for April 25-27, will continue.