Henry Louis Gates Jr., who hosts the PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” said he handed the pontiff a copy of his family tree.

Over his 12-year pontificate, Pope Francis created 163 cardinals from nearly 80 countries, including some two dozen that had not seen their own cardinal before — Haiti, Myanmar, East Timor ...

Pope Francis was the 265th successor of St. Peter. ... such as Haiti. March 22 — Pope Francis creates the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

When Pope Francis visited the United States in 2015, cheering crowds of Catholics and non-Catholics turned out in New York, Washington and Philadelphia to greet him, ... Haiti and Mongolia, ...

Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope and the first pope from the Americas, left an impact on the Catholic Church and on the world in many different ways. Here are five standouts.

Pope Francis' funeral took place six days after his death, at 88, on Easter Monday. Plus Icon Film ... You’ve got the Cardinals from Tonga, Haiti, Central Africa, Mongolia.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ death today on Easter Monday marks the end of a historic 12-year papacy. The first Latin American and the first member of the Society of Jesus to be elected pope ...

FILE - New Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, stands for a portrait at the end of the consistory where Pope Francis elevated 21 new cardinals in St. Peter's ...

An old saying about papal elections goes as follows: “He who enters the conclave as pope, leaves it as a cardinal.” In other words, any candidate seen as the frontrunner before the voting ...

Tens of Thousands Line Up to Honor Pope Francis More than 60,000 people have paid their respects to the late pope’s body in St. Peter’s Basilica since Wednesday, according to the Vatican.