Just 10 days after Pope Francis was appointed head of the Catholic Church, he received an ominous gift from his predecessor — ...

Associated Press reporter Nicole Winfield, who covered Pope Francis at the Vatican during his entire pontificate, earned the ...

Few could have predicted that a comment Pope Francis made during a 2018 visit to Chile would blow up into the biggest crisis ...

But the commission lost its influence after a few years and its crowning recommendation — the creation of a tribunal to judge bishops who covered up for predator priests — went nowhere.

Pope Francis was a man of remarkable complexity who cultivated an image of utmost simplicity. He began the moment he first ...

When Pope Francis sat with his head in his hands and listened to accounts of clerical sexual abuse for an hour longer than ...

During his 12 years as head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis was a voice for compassion and peace, reformed the Vatican ...

During his 12 years as head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis was a voice for compassion and peace, reformed the Vatican ...

Francis inherited a deeply divided Church after the resignation in 2013 of his predecessor, Benedict XVI. The ...

Even though cardinals don’t campaign for the job, there are always front-runners going into a conclave to choose the next pope.

That’s tough to get your head around in the ... by “hypocritical.” When covering the church, I often found myself across a lunch or dinner table from a priest who recognized that I was ...

When Pope Francis took over in 2013, the Catholic Church was embroiled in a global scandal over child sex abuse by priests, and the institution’s attempts to cover ... with the head of the ...