Photos showed ... through St. Peter's Square. Francis, Re said, was always "close to his flock, the church of God, mindful of the words of Jesus quoted by the Apostle Paul: 'It is more blessed ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV offered a message of love and unity during an inaugural Mass on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square ...

Thursday marked a historic day for the Catholic Church that particularly hit home for adherents around Chicago, with the election of area native Pope Leo XIV making him the first-ever American-born ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, was elected Thursday as the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church — the first pope from the United States.

Cardinals entered St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday for a final ... the private process to select a new leader of the Catholic Church. The dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista ...

Today, mourners from around the globe have gathered in Vatican City for the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square. The 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, Argentinian-born Jorge ...

Pope Francis will be buried later this evening, bringing down the curtain on his 12-year tenure as the leader of the Catholic Church ... St. Peter’s Square. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images ...

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 ...

An official letter from the Vatican Dicastery places a hold on the order to merge SS. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church and St. James Catholic Church, which was issued by an official decree of the ...

Thousands flooded through the walls of Vatican City as a procession of cardinals and pallbearers took the body of the late pontiff into St. Peter's Basilica. As day broke in Vatican City on ...

Catholic cardinals performed the ritual ceremony on Wednesday to transfer Pope Francis’ body from his home in the Vatican hotel to St. Peter’s ... the Catholic Church. Francis died Monday ...

through St. Peter's Square and into the adjacent basilica. Fronted by the Swiss Guard, cardinals and other church leaders led the slow procession into the sunlit esplanade as a male choir chanted ...