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Pope Francis, the Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff, has died, the Vatican announced on April 21, 2025. He was 88. Francis had served...
Holding a conclave to elect a pope is a tradition that goes back centuries.
The Catholic Church opposes assisted suicide and euthanasia, but it also doesn’t support treatments that prolong suffering in the face of...
A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before.