Papa Francisco

The Vatican on Saturday said Francis would preside at the Holy Week ceremonies, which culminate with Easter Sunday Mass in the square on April 9

David O’Connell, 69, was killed just blocks from the St. John Vianney Church, part of his archdiocese, in Hacienda Heights

The government expects 46 million people to join festivities that officially began Friday and run through February 22

The head of the Roman Catholic Church lashed out against the partisan use that clerical conservatives have made of the former pontiff’s death, particularly Georg Gänswein, the longtime secretary to Joseph Ratzinger

Deafening cheers and chants greeted Francis on his last full day in Congo as he joined tens of thousands of young people at the Martyrs’ Stadium in the capital, Kinshasa

The pontiff is on a six-day trip that will also take him to South Sudan, two of the most dangerous countries on the continent and among the few places where Catholicism remains robust

His comments calling for the decriminalization of homosexuality were hailed by LGBTQ advocates as a milestone that would help end harassment and violence against the community

A Netflix documentary and memoirs by a former papal secretary have pushed Pope Francis to review details of the disappearance of an employee’s daughter, missing for 39 years

‘The great gossipmonger is the devil,’ said Pope Francis before meeting in private with Georg Gänswein, who is set to release a book revealing secrets of the pope he served for so long

Joseph Ratzinger became the first pontiff to voluntarily resign his position since the 13th century and was faced with one of the biggest scandals of the modern Catholic Church during his papacy