While the world mourns the passing of Pope Francis on April 21, the Catholic Church is preparing to choose a new leader.

Supermarket giants have come under fire from an enraged Bob Katter for refusing to show a nativity scene during Easter. In a video on Facebook on Saturday, the fiery politician and founder of ...

(AP Photo/Luca Zennaro, Pool, file) FILE – Pope Francis leaves after a meeting with the performers of the living nativity scene of St. Mary Major, in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican ...

In December, Francis attended the inauguration of a nativity scene at the Vatican that positioned ... after years of stalled investigations and charges of a cover-up, an Argentinian court ruled ...

Francis passed church laws abolishing the use of pontifical secrecy and establishing procedures to investigate bishops who abuse or cover up for predator priests. But he was dogged by high-profile ...

A month earlier, a seasonal nativity scene at the Vatican was removed after ... made it compulsory to report suspicions of abuse or its cover-up to Church authorities. But critics say his legacy ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was born Dec. 17, 1936, to Italian immigrants in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five children. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1969 and led the religious order in ...