Previous conservative Popes had sternly condemned the sin, but Francis tended to treat the offering of compassionate charity ...

The six-kilometer funeral procession that carried Pope Francis from St. Peter's to St. Mary Major was filled with profound ...

The message that shone through Francis’s provisions for his departure was that the true place of his church was on the ...

Francis choreographed the funeral himself when he revised and simplified the Vatican’s rites and rituals last year.