Category: 4. World

DW spoke with William Shomali, a Palestinian Catholic prelate who serves as auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, following Francis’ death. Shomali described Francis as a “great man.”

“He was supporting the poorest, the…

As the first Argentinian to be elected to the papacy, Pope Francis’s rise was of particular significance in Latin America.

For millions of Argentines, the late Pope was both a figure of controversy and a spiritual guiding light, his extraordinary life mirroring the tumultuous…

The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing of ballots with a needle and thread after they’re counted, and then burning them to produce either the…

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate backgrounds and faiths, has died at 88, the Vatican has confirmed.

Pope Francis’ death…