Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill reflects on Pope Francis' funeral and how traditional customs have faded over time.

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, passed away on April 21, 2025-Easter Monday-at 88 from a cerebral stroke. The ...

Francis always encouraged me in our attempt to move forward as an ecumenical community and in welcoming young people from ...

True discipleship is not measured by the creeds Christians recite or the theology they know, but by how deeply they love, a ...

A look at some of the hundreds of thousands of Catholics from around the world who flocked to Vatican City to pay their ...

I never knew how much I wanted to go to Rome until I got there.

With the news that Pope Francis died on Monday, April 21, the day after Easter, faith leaders from across the country shared ...

They were what any of us might wear — and, like most of his clothes, they showed a preference for humility and simplicity.

The death of Pope Francis on April 21 at the age of 88 has led to American televangelist Joel Osteen getting called out for ...

The 35-year-old law bars adult children and their parents from suing for wrongful death caused by medical malpractice. A diver on an expedition off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, captured ...

As a Melbourne pastor writes, welcoming the stranger is not just a Christian value that Pope Francis lived out — it’s also ...

After similar outreach to Sunnis, the pontiff's 2021 meeting with Shia's Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani transcended ...