Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more ...

When the Vatican appointed the sculptor and architect Michelangelo to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica, he based it on the Greek ...

But Francis was also echoing St. Peter’s own recognition of his sinfulness, as he responded to Jesus when he first called him ...

The beloved religious institution is now the Basilica of St. Edward, just as church officials begin to plan a centenary ...

Francis, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory infection in his youth and has been plagued by ailing health recently, last ...

His condition has sparked interest in how a new pope is elected, something heightened by the success of the Oscar-nominated film Conclave, which starred British actor Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal ...

The Catholic Church is almost 2,000 years old, and over the centuries, the protocol for papal funerals has been codified and ...

With more than 900    churches, hundreds of palazzos, 10 World Heritage Sites and 280 fountains (the Trevi alone sees some 700,000 euros in coin donations every year), Rome can be an overwhelming city ...

Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis in the hospital Wednesday and reported he was “alert and responsive” and full of good humor, despite his diagnosis of pneumonia and a co ...

Pope Francis is being treated for a "complex clinical situation" and will remain in hospital for as long as necessary, the ...

Pope Francis followed Sunday mass and his traditional Angelus weekly prayer on television in a Rome hospital where the ...