Requiescat in pace. That is the Latin phrase abbreviated as R.I.P. on so many memorials. The common English use “rest in ...

When the cardinals gather in Rome to elect Pope Francis’s successor, two issues will weigh on their decision: the Catholic ...

After similar outreach to Sunnis, the pontiff's 2021 meeting with Shia's Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani transcended ...

I asked, “what should we do, when the leaders take us to ruin?” He said, “Wait.”  — Charles Eisenstein Democracy: yearning to ...

And the origins of that are theocratic, obviously. The beginning of that is the idea that there is a supreme leader, or infallible pope, or a chief rabbi, or whatever, who can ventriloquize the divine ...

In a small ceremony, Vatican officials followed the path long taken when a pope dies. By Alan Yuhas Before mourners in their thousands gather in St. Peter’s Square to grieve, before leaders from ...

The 88-year-old pontiff had been well aware of his fragile state and advanced age. As early as 2015, Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore ...

After Pope Francis’ funeral, 135 cardinals will gather for a conclave to elect a new pope. The traditions include oaths of secrecy, paper ballots and white smoke from a chimney of the Sistine ...

“As a longtime admirer of the Pope and his work to center the poor and marginalized, I was honored to meet him and pray with him last year. I join all those across the world mourning his death ...

Pope Francis addressed a joint meeting of Congress in 2015. He was the first and only Pope to do so.Credit...Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Supported by By Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham ...