Francis angered conservatives in the Catholic Church with his stances on gay people, divorce and immigration.

The pope was admitted to hospital on February 14 where he is fighting a complex respiratory infection and pneumonia in both lungs.

Pope Leo XIV has opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday. He is lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” that have been left by today’s wars and conflicts.

One of the leading figures behind Donald Trump’s MAGA movement discussed opposition strategies with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein against Pope Francis. Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser to President Trump,

DOJ's Epstein files reveal that former White House advisor Steve Bannon used to discuss plans with Jeffrey Epstein to 'take down' Pope Francis

In a wide-ranging interview with an Italian paper, Card. Camillo Ruini offered a forthright assessment of the Francis pontificate and flatly called Benedict XVI’s decision to resign “a mistake.”

Mel Gibson is consulting with excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò - who has called the late Pope Francis “a servant of Satan” - for the "The Resurrection of the Christ," his follow up to 2004's "The Passion of the Christ" that is currently still shooting in Italy.

Pope Leo XIV will visit ground zero of Europe’s migration drama, the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, on July 4 in a strong sign of continuity with Pope Francis, who often clashed with the U.S. over his strong outreach to migrants,