The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

Pope Francis opened the door to the LGBTQ faithful, and they are hoping the new pontiff continues to move the Catholic Church ...

Church bells rang out for hours in celebration at Villanova University in suburban Philadelphia after one of their graduates ...

Francis may have been globally admired, but within the church hierarchy he was a polarizing figure. This could have resulted ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic ...

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

More than 200,000 people are attending the ceremony today in St Peter's Square, including some 130 delegations. The service is expected to last about two-and-a-half hours and will be mostly ...

That is one vocation story. What’s yours? This Caravaggio masterpiece, along with “The Conversion of St. Matthew” and “The Martyrdom of St. Matthew,” hangs in the church of the congregation of San ...

The Vatican has released the order of service ahead of the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday in St Peter's Square. The booklet, published on the Vatican's website, is 87 pages long and contains ...