Cardinal Wim Eijk will attend the funeral That's the role of the College of Cardinals, the Catholic Church's most senior figures appointed by the pontiff, who will make their way to Rome in the ...

The Holy See is the universal government of the Catholic Church, which is its own sovereign ... death as a stroke that prompted irreversible heart failure. The certificate officially lists the ...

The day before artist Edward Stross held a rally to show public support for the vacant Sacred Heart Church in Roseville, a motion was filed in court to dismiss the litigation over the church and ...

From Church authorities to political figures ... The South Sudanese bishop said Francis “had a heart for Africa,” exemplified by his outspoken stances against the post-colonial exploitation ...

Pope Francis, 88, a humble reformer who sought to make the Catholic Church more inclusive and clashed ... Francis died of a stroke and irreversible heart failure, Vatican doctor Andrea Arcangeli ...

The church now finds itself at a crossroads, plagued by divisions and competing visions after the death of a spiritual leader who called out religious hypocrisy as he sought to throw open the ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman ... Images "I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your prayers for my health from the ...

"He was a pope who brought so many people closer to the church. He was not appreciated by everyone. But he definitely was by ordinary people." Doctors had prescribed two months of rest when the ...

AS residents enjoy their Easter Friday bank holiday, some may have spotted a cross and heart etched in the sky above Colchester this afternoon. The C3 Church, in Ypres Road, arranged for a ...