Francis X. Rocca covered the Vatican and global religion for The Wall Street Journal. A native of Washington, D.C., he has ...

Two days later, I read in the international edition of The New York Times that he was living on one lung. The spiritual leader who was striving to save the whole world was himself ailing. But I ...

There could, as the wags have pointed out, even be a new revolutionary anthem: Shoot the Booer, Kill the Booer. As for Jantjie, well, with a smart manager, he can look forward to a promising career in ...

Pope Francis, 88, died of a stroke and heart failure, the Vatican said. Francis was last seen Sunday when he gave the ...

The Vatican said Francis, the first pope from Latin America, had died after a stroke, and revealed that his will requested a simple tomb in Rome.

Elected in March 2013 as an outsider who could reform the Roman Curia, meaning the central government of the Church, but who ...

Francis even changed the church’s stance on the death penalty, calling it “inadmissible.” Still, the pope’s legacy took a hit ...

A look at the Pope Francis' legacy as history's first pope from the global south and a maverick who often delighted the world ...

Pope Francis, history's first pope from the global south and a maverick who often delighted the world, died April 21 after fighting pulmonary disease for the last few months.