Pope Francis was an avid soccer fan born in Argentina. Lionel Messi shared a sentimental message after the Vatican announced ...

Fast forward to 1993. A Tanzanian girl, Miriam Ikoa, wins a beauty pageant in Kenya. Yes, Kenya. For Lundenga, it was an ...

HEARTFELT tributes have poured in for a British Airways crew member who was found dead in his hotel bed on a stopover between ...

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

A YORKSHIRE-born cardinal, who will be one of just 133 men to choose the next pontiff, has shared memories of his "fraternal ...

World leaders paid tribute to his moral and spiritual leadership ... Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said “a great man has left us” in a statement, while Argentine President Javier Milei pointed ...

LYON, France (AP) — Church bells tolled in mourning. Well-wishers flocked into pews. Tributes to Pope Francis poured in from ...

Bells tolled in church towers across Rome after the announcement was read out by Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican ...

A memorial Mass is being held at the Cathedral of St. Peter in Jackson following the death of Pope Francis at age 88.

Pope Francis died on Monday morning, according to the Vatican. He was 88 years old and held the papacy for 12 years.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humility and concern for ...