While Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II embraced free markets and formed the triumvirate that courageously confronted Soviet communism, Francis ceded control over Chinese bishop appointments ...

Carabinieri paramilitary police patrol St. Peter’s Square as people line up to enter St. Peter’s Basilica where Pope Francis ...

Vendors in Indonesia sold keychains and fans bearing his image. A message board to the late pope was covered in writings from ...

(Photo by API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - FEBRUARY 21: Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła) names Jorge Mario Bergoglio as cardinal during a consistory in St. Peter's ...

See photos of his Philadelphia visit below. Pope Francis celebrates Mass on Sept. 26, 2015, at Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. (Chris Knight/Special to The Morning ...

AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate backgrounds and faiths ...

Pope Francis has died at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as he recovered from a five-week hospitalization for double pneumonia.

In a small ceremony, Vatican officials followed the path long taken when a pope dies. By Alan Yuhas Before ... At the same time, the photos make clear that however much Francis tried to shake ...

Tributes to Pope Francis poured in from around the world, from presidents to people of all walks of life, after the Vatican announced the pontiff’s death at age 88 on Monday. This is a photo ...

during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, Jan. 2, 2019. (Andrew Medichini/AP) Pope Francis receives U.S. Vice President JD Vance, right, before bestowing the ...