The pope’s unadorned tomb, marked by a single Latin word — Franciscus — was intended, a cleric said, to reflect a life of ...

My brief tour with Pope Francis, the diplomat of our times.

The body of a saint who died in Seattle is said to have been "incorrupt," having not decomposed in 27 years. How is this ...

World leaders, cardinals and at least 200,000 of the faithful are expected to gather in the Vatican on Saturday morning to ...

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a ...

That simple but so important Sign of the Cross we see so often holds a hidden history that takes us back to the origins of ...

In a 2024 meeting with Syro-Malabar Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil of Ernakulam-Angamaly, Pope Francis summed up his view ...

And finally, his prophetic voice for peace. Not just the absence of conflict, but the kind of peace rooted in justice, in ...

In a solemn ceremony in St. Peter’s Square, political and religious leaders joined a crowd of thousands in mourning the death ...

What Pope Francis is remembered for, his attitude toward Russian aggression against Ukraine, expectations from his successor, ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...

Guests at the Vatican service were told of the Pope's call to 'build bridges', as Trump and Zelensky were pictured meeting ...