To celebrate its 125th anniversary, St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Dyker Heights had a street co-naming ceremony on ...

Jan. 8 marks the beginning of the new rector’s ministry and the bishop will come to the church service at 4 p.m. St. Francis Episcopal Church is located at 10033 River Road in Potomac.

The Gothic revival-style building, which was originally the St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church, was constructed in the late 1800s. The church moved in 1922 and is now St. Paul United Methodist ...

In the eyes of many LGBTQ Catholics, the late Pope Francis created a “seismic shift” toward acceptance. Now, as the world welcomes the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, these lesbian, gay, bisexual ...

Pope Francis was also fond of founding new "days" for the church to celebrate -- among them, Sunday of the Word of God (Third Sunday in Ordinary Time on the Roman Calendar); World Day of Prayer for ...

In a solemn and majestic funeral on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica, the Roman Catholic Church on Saturday laid to rest Pope Francis, the first South American pope, whose simple style, pastoral ...

Throughout his papacy, Francis was an outspoken advocate for the downtrodden. Shortly after he was elected in 2013 he said, “How I would like a church that is poor and for the poor.” ...

Mourners, some in tears, quickly gathered in St. Peter’s Square in Rome, where the death of Francis at age 88 caught many by surprise. “We saw him yesterday,” Marco Volpi, 69, said.

Typically, popes are laid to rest beneath St. Peter's Basilica. On Saturday, Francis became the first Catholic leader in over 120 years to be buried outside the holy city, according to Vatican News.

Pope Francis' funeral has been scheduled for Saturday morning at 10 a.m. local time (4 a.m. EDT) at St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican announced Tuesday after a meeting of the College of Cardinals.

Duncan Dormor, an Anglican priest who co-wrote “Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, and the Renewal of the Church,” said Francis believed in protecting people and used the Gospels as his guide.