For many of us who slipped away from the Church, Pope Francis represented the kindness we were always looking for and still strive to embody.

Juan Carlos Cruz, who spent birthdays and Christmas with Pope Francis and advised him on clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic ...

Ahead of the conclave to select the next pope, names circulating include cardinals Bo of Myanmar, Tagle of the Philippines ...

During his 12 years of service as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis often became a subject of criticism ...