Pope Francis, 88, died of a stroke on April 21, Easter Monday, after a long respiratory illness. About 135 cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to choose a new pontiff next week, according ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. ... left to eat and sleep beneath Michelangelo's vivid Renaissance masterpiece.

Pope Francis dies; first pontiff from ... The vote for Benedict’s replacement, inside Michelangelo’s magnificent Sistine Chapel, concluded the evening of March 13, 2013, ...

When the conclave’s cardinals finish casting their ballots under Michelangelo’s frescoed ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, the 267th pope will have to decide whether to continue Francis’ policies.

When Pope Francis became pontiff: A timeline of his religious journey and career. Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five children to Mario Jose ...

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not ...

The Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor has died in Buenos Aires at age 98 ROME -- Cardinal ...

When the conclave's cardinals finish casting their ballots under Michelangelo's frescoed ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, the 267th pope will have to decide whether to continue Francis’ policies.

Pope Francis, seen in St. Peter’s Square in 2016, was the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics and the tiniest nation, Vatican City, since 2013.

In the wake of Pope Francis' death, viewership has spiked for "Conclave," about the choosing of a new pope. Two experts tell Fox News Digital about what the movie got right and wrong.

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff and the first Jesuit to lead the Catholic Church, marked more than a decade of transformative leadership. From his humble beginnings in Argentina to ...

Francis’ body — dressed in papal vestments, with a white bishop’s miter on his head — will lie in state at St. Peter’s Basilica for several days to allow the faithful to bid farewell. On ...