Pope Francis made a short and unannounced visit Saturday to St. Peter's Basilica to pray before this evening's Easter vigil ...

The night before the funeral, the camerlengo will preside over the closing and sealing of the coffin in the presence of other ...

Organizations focused on immigrant and refugee services in New York, react to the pope's passing: “I will always admire the ...

The pope’s schedule often included time for visiting prisons, hosting audiences in St. Peter’s Square and blessing newlywed ...

While many popes are buried under St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, Pope Francis will not continue that trend. In December, Pope Francis said he wanted to be buried in the Rome basilica of St. Mary ...

Two popes who played instrumental roles in building the world's largest church now gaze at one another with renewed clarity ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, presided over the Easter vigil Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.

The recent restoration of the funerary monument of Urban VIII is displayed to journalists inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the ...

US Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic convert, attended Good Friday services with his wife and three children at St. Peter’s ...

Just days before he was hospitalized in February, Francis blasted the Trump administration’s deportation plans, warning that ...

US Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell announces the death of Pope Francis at 88, with Vatican media broadcasting the news from St.