VATICAN CITY -- Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five ...

Tributes to Pope Francis poured in on Monday, as presidents, prime ministers and other world leaders reacted to the news of his death.

Classes are set to resume on Monday at Florida State University following an on-campus mass shooting last week, but students have been afforded the option to skip them.

Pope Francis called for "a church for the poor," a church that would reach out to what he called the "peripheries." He called for a humble, more merciful and inclusive church, and repeatedly ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Cardinal Blasé Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, has released a statement following the death of Pope Francis.

The church officially recognizes St. Peter, the first pope, as the longest-serving, with at least 34 years. However, many historians dispute that as impossible to verify, and instead say the ...

Pope Francis' death sets into motion a series of formalized rites and observances that occur during what is called the interregnum, which begins upon the pontiff's passing and ends with the election ...

El Papa Francisco, cuyo mandato al frente de la Iglesia católica se caracterizó por su humildad y por sus esfuerzos por ...

A Chicago pizzeria was the latest target of a burglary. Police said one or more people broke through the side window of Slice ...

Police are searching for a man suspected of chasing two women into a dorm and shoving another woman standing under train tracks nearby on DePaul University's campus.

There is a demand for action after a street takeover on Chicago's North Side. One video showed cars doing donuts as fireworks ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis died Monday morning, Cardinal Kevin Ferrell, the Vatican camerlengo, announced. "At 7:35 this morning, the Bishop of Rome, Francis, returned to the home of the Father. His ...