In a historic speech in Spetember 2015, Pope Francis addressed a joint meeting of Congress in ... was elected to the papacy in 2013 as white smoke billowed from the Sistene Chapel.

Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death ROME -- ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death, and personally ...

The keys are humility and mercy. Read the pope’s remarkable address to a joint session of Congress in 2015: Francis channeled not just Catholics such as Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day but also ...

Image White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel after the College of Cardinals elected Francis as pope in 2013.Credit...Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Inside the Vatican, the dean of the college ...