For thousands of Catholic pilgrims in Rome, it’s the unmissable Vatican appointment: the midday Sunday blessing the pope delivers from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square.

Robert Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south side suburbs, where he grew up playing “pretend priest” and ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

After Pope Francis' death, the photographer wanted to illustrate the life of a deacon in Simojovel, someone who had dedicated ...

Robert Francis Prevost was chosen on Thursday, May 8, to succeed Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic Church.

Catholic cardinals from around the world gathered in the Vatican on Wednesday for the start of the conclave, the ...

On the final day of official mourning for the death of Pope Francis, the late pontiff was remembered as someone who was determined to live out the mission entrusted to him and serve others, even when ...

A look at some of the hundreds of thousands of Catholics from around the world who flocked to Vatican City to pay their respects to the late pontiff.

Pope Francis was a particularly beloved figure in the Los Angeles region. The pontiff’s death finds the community grappling with a ‘big loss.’ The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully ...

A selection by Reuters editors of some of the photos from Pope Francis' funeral with comments by photographers ...

The Pope, famous—perhaps foremost—for his insistence on simplicity and aversion to clerical glitz, wanted to be buried not at the Vatican but at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major, where before and ...

Francis’ body laid in state for three days at St. Peter’s Basilica since Wednesday. He will be the first pope since 1903 to be buried somewhere other than the Vatican, opting to be interred at ...