Her son and Francis’ nephew, José Bergoglio, said his family wouldn’t travel to Rome ... Italy as the Pope is buried in the Basilica of St. Mary Major — thanks to a private donor who ...

When he was elected in 2013, Pope Francis said he chose his name in honor of St. Francis ... on other family members are also not currently known. No. In accordance with modern canon law ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

When Jan and Bob Wacker packed up and moved from their home in St. Louis County it’s because family comes first with them.

Bergoglio took the name Francis not after St. Francis Xavier ... Francis thought COVID-19 exposed a spiritual crisis in modern man as well. “The tempest lays bare all our prepackaged ideas ...

Robert Prevost - now known as Pope Leo XIV - has become the first American pontiff after white smoke finally emerged from the ...

During Francis’s 12-year pontificate, the Church’s internal disagreements on such matters as modern sexual behaviour ... name to evoke the humility of St Francis of Assisi.

“He always said you have to be joyful about life, you have to live life in a similar way,” said Marco Falchi, who traveled from his home ... Francis’There was a clear blue sky over St ...