In a Moscow suburb, locals have been battling against city officials and the Russian Orthodox Church to stop construction of a new church in a city park. This construction project is part of a plan to ...

On this day in 1979, Pope John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyła in Poland, visited his home country for the first time as pontiff, ...

Archbishop Borys Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia led a prayer rally for peace in Ukraine in ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Cardinal Robert Prevost attends the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square. His rise in the faith began at a South Side church. “Even as a young ...

St. Peter’s Basilica, including the Vatican Grottoes (the underground crypt where many popes are buried), currently houses the remains of approximately 91 popes of Rome. This number, which is ...

Around St. Peter’s Square, the pope offered services ... Shortly after he was elected in 2013 he said, “How I would like a church that is poor and for the poor.” But Francis, who died ...

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered for Pope Francis' funeral on Saturday in St. Peter's ... the church of God, mindful of the words of Jesus quoted by the Apostle Paul: 'It is more blessed ...

VATICAN CITY — So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica ... first-day mourners was a church group of 14-year-olds ...

More than 60,000 people have visited St Peter’s Basilica to bid farewell ... They had been there before — when Pope John Paul II died, they joined a group of pilgrims from Sicily.

Pope John Paul II, who served as ... raised on a stretcher and taken to St. Peter's Basilica in a slow procession led by the chamberlain of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Kevin Farrell.

The body of Pope Francis, laid out in an open coffin, was carried in a solemn procession Wednesday from his residence within the walls of the Vatican City to St ... of the church ahead of ...

Jim and Jeanne Mulligan headed to the Cathedral of St. Paul on Monday morning ... world as he joined the crowd in St. Peter’s Square yesterday for the Church’s celebration of Jesus’ victory ...