In the small Peruvian town of Eten, the faithful flock every year to celebrate an apparent 17th century miracle featuring ...

M y mother was the only person in my life who loved me, truly and unconditionally. I could do no wrong in her eyes and she ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, is scheduled to deliver his first such prayer on Sunday from the loggia where he first appeared in ...

"I wanted so much to come here in these first days of the new ministry that the church has given me" to seek Mary's help "to ...

Less than 48 hours after being elected, Pope Leo XIV got in the front seat of a minivan and traveled 40 miles southeast from ...

The heraldic design of Leo’s papal coat of arms features a fleur-de-lis on a blue background, symbolizing the Virgin Mary, ...

While Medieval Conclaves could extend for months and even years, the rules were tweaked by Pope John Paul II and Pope ...

Francis is not the only pope to rest there. Seven others are buried on the grounds, most notably St. Pius V, who established ...

Pope Francis had a special devotion to the Marian icon, Salus Populi Romani (Salvation or Health of the Roman People), which ...

Breaking with tradition, the pontiff, death at the age of 88 was announced on Easter Monday, chose a burial site outside the Vatican ... there is a statue of Mary, Queen of Peace, commissioned ...

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary Major Basilica a day after ... until recently the Vatican's secretary of state.

VATICAN CITY, — World leaders and rank-and ... his simple wooden coffin traveled aboard a modified popemobile to St. Mary Major Basilica, some 6 kilometers (3.5-miles) away.