But St. Mary was one of Francis' favorite places in Rome and a church with deep personal significance to him. “It's especially beautiful because of Pope Francis' love for the basilica of Mary ...

Hundreds of priests, diplomats and community members gathered at the Church of St. Francis in the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi for a special memorial dedicated to the late Pope. During his ...

She smelled like lemons. I was raised at Baltimore’s St. Francis Xavier Church, the oldest Black Catholic church in Maryland — a gray, gothic structure heavy with history, joy and contradiction.

I FEEL LIKE GOD WILL LEAD THEM IN THE RIGHT WAY Many students went to St. Ignatius Church in Mount Vernon on Tuesday night to pray and reflect on the legacy of Pope Francis, who died Monday at the ...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

Mr Cutri was one of “nearly a thousand” people that attended a special mass at St Francis Xavier Cathedral in Adelaide ... while he was singing in his church choir. He brought his son Sanea ...

CARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- As the sun rose on St. Michael the Archangel Church in Cary, thousands of Catholics and Christians worldwide said their final farewell to Pope Francis. "They've been praying ...

From working as a bouncer at a Buenos Aires nightclub to presiding over the Vatican, the path Pope Francis forged ... a picture in front of St. John’s Episcopal Church near the White House ...

It is also located near the altar dedicated to St. Francis. Work to receive Pope Francis’ coffin began a few days ago, fulfilling the pontiff’s wish for a simple burial in this church ...

As the head of the Catholic Church for a dozen years ... Bergoglio took the name Francis not after St. Francis Xavier, co-founder of the Jesuit order, but St. Francis of Assisi, who created ...

VATICAN CITY — Tens of thousands of people poured into St ... of Francis’ 12-year project to radically reform the papacy, to stress pastors as servants and to construct “a poor church ...