When Jenna Drummond and Clair Volkening saw Pope Francis step onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to give his “urbi et ...

Mourning mass in St. Peter’s Basilica after Pope Francis’ funeral, ahead of conclave Watch live as a mourning mass is held in ...

Teobaldo Visconti became pope Gregory X in September 1271. But the longest conclave in more recent times was that of 1831, ...

As Pope Francis's body lay in state in the Vatican last week, one of the mourners -- with eyes downcast and hands clasped -- ...

Strickland, a former bishop, said he worried a pope similar to Francis would deepen the rift between the U.S. and the Vatican.

Soon, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri said, the cardinal proto deacon will announce to the Church and the world the “‘gaudium magnum ...

Psychological theory predicts that world leaders, including Donald Trump, might change their attitudes as a result of ...

President Donald Trump reflected on his private meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Rome, calling it a ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Cardinal Peter Turkson and Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, have become the four leading contenders to become the next pope, according to crypto-powered ...

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

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster than in Africa, a continent Francis showered with attention.

The Manoppello veil was acquired by Capuchin monks in 1638, while the one kept at St. Peter’s is often considered ... In Rome, the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem was built on the ...