For the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and for millions of other people as well, the Catholic Church's 2025 was primarily ...

Faithful line up in St. Peter's Square to pay homage to the body of Pope Francis on April 23, 2025 in Vatican City St Peter’s Basilica was kept open almost all night on Wednesday, April 23, to ...

This undated photograph shows a young Pope Francis, then Jorge Bergoglio, with his family. Back row, from left: his brother ...

Pope Francis passed away at age 88 on April 21, 2025, after an Easter Mass appearance. His funeral will be held on April 26, 2025, and broadcast on major networks and online platforms. Pope Francis ...

VATICAN CITY, — So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all night due to ...

ANALYSIS: By reshaping competencies, tightening accountability and institutionalizing consultation, the new regulations ...

Rome — It's been called "holy smoke." And it's color coded. Black and white plumes puffed from canisters over the weekend as pyrotechnics expert Massimiliano De Sanctis tested the mechanism that will ...

Pope Leo has dissolved a high-level Catholic commission established to encourage donations to the Vatican, the Vatican said ...

In 2018, German artist Michael Triegel asked a homeless man in Rome to pose for a drawing, thinking that he would make an ...