Pope Francis

Pope Francis, 1936-2025

Jeremy Lott · April 24, 2025 11:30 pm

Hong Kong gives cardinal his passport back for Pope Francis’s funeral after 2022 arrest

Brady Knox · April 24, 2025 4:49 pm

Zelensky hoping to meet with Trump at pope’s funeral

Ross O'Keefe · April 23, 2025 11:07 am

Pope Francis receives Vice President JD Vance, left, before bestowing the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and to the world) blessing at the end of the Easter Mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sunday, April 20, 2025.

Vance calls it a ‘blessing’ to visit Pope Francis shortly before death

Haisten Willis · April 23, 2025 10:48 am

Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 22, 2024.

Beltway Confidential

Pope Francis failed John Paul II’s moral test on Ukraine

Ani Chkhikvadze · April 23, 2025 6:00 am

Cardinals, including U.S. Roger Mahony, left, and Timothy Dolan, third from left, arrive for a meeting at the Vatican, Monday March 11, 2013. Cardinals have gathered for their final day of talks before the conclave to elect the next pope amid debate over whether the Catholic Church needs a manager pope to clean up the Vatican's messy bureaucracy or a pastoral pope who can inspire the faithful and make Catholicism relevant again. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

My fellow Catholics: Don’t read this article about the papal election

Timothy P. Carney · April 22, 2025 5:04 pm

Vatican releases first pictures of Pope Francis in open coffin as funeral rites begin

Timothy Nerozzi · April 22, 2025 12:20 pm

Pope Francis’s funeral to be held Saturday

Brady Knox · April 22, 2025 7:47 am

Papal punditry kicks in over who will succeed Pope Francis

Timothy Nerozzi · April 22, 2025 5:00 am

Pope Francis defied easy political categorization

Washington Examiner · April 22, 2025 12:01 am

In this undated photo provided by the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Cecil the lion rests in Hwange National Park, in Hwange, Zimbabwe. (Andy Loveridge/Wildlife Conservation Research Unit via AP)

Beltway Confidential

A Narnia of ‘creative morality’

Emma Fuentes · April 21, 2025 8:19 pm

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stand on the Blue Room Balcony as they participate in the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, April 21, 2025, in Washington.

Trump vows to ‘bring religion back’ at White House Easter Egg Roll

Heather Hunter · April 21, 2025 5:08 pm