Pope Leo XIV on Sunday asked for prayers for China’s Catholics to remain in communion with the Holy See, making his first ...

Pope Leo XIV declared himself a Roman on Sunday as he completed the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop ...

The National Catholic Reporter's Rome Bureau is made possible in part by the generosity of Joan and Bob McGrath. This story appears in the The Legacy of Pope Francis feature series. View the full ...

The atmosphere in the Eternal City was electric.

Rome may be the Eternal City ... three days in St. Peter’s in a plain wooden coffin placed at floor level. Pope Francis’s body lies in state for three days at St. Peter’s Basilica before ...

In 2014, he served as the administrator and later bishop of Chiclayo, where he remained until Pope Francis summoned him to Rome in 2023 to serve as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop ...

“Pope Francis had a certain solidarity with Africa ... New York Times Reporting was contributed by Neil MacFarquhar from Rome; Jack Buunda from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; Eugene ...

A group of Don Bosco students and staff arrived in Rome on April 22, the day after the death of Pope Francis. Students and staff members shared their experience in Rome after returning home.

As I sat among the more than 200,000 people who came to Rome to grieve the loss and celebrate the life of Pope Francis, one word kept running through my mind − mercy. I thought of the pope’s ...

On Sunday, the Vatican released images showing the tomb of Pope Francis at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, also known as Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome. After the cardinals paid their respects ...

It feels very full circle," said Hayley.The Greses met Pope Francis in 2019 when he blessed them as newlyweds. They were initially planning their trip to Rome for the canonization of Blessed Carlo ...

“Pope Francis for me was an inspiration, a guide,” said Elias Caravalhal. Caravalhal lives in Rome but was unable to pay his respects to Francis when the body was lying in state in St. Peter ...