Ahead of the 2013 conclave to replace Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan was tipped to restore the papal hat ...

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary ...

At least one U.S. bishop said President Donald Trump needs to apologize, and even his closest prelate in the church, Cardinal ...

More than 65 years later, I still remember the experience of being an altar boy reciting the entirety of the Catholic Mass in ...

Cardinal Baltazar Porras Cardozo of Merida, Venezuela, arrives to attend a general congregation meeting of the College of ...

After an unprecedented summit at the Vatican on clerical sexual violence in 2019, a series of measures were taken, including ...

With Pope Francis' passing, the Roman Catholic Church is focused on electing his replacement. Here's what that means.

As the Catholic Church continues through a period of interregnum between the reign of popes, Chinese authorities have made moves to assert the Church in China’s autonomy from Rome by ...

Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms and made it his mission to change the perception of the Catholic Church around the world, has died at the age of 88. The Vatican said Pope ...

This year, Rome expects to welcome three times its ... one another and with all of creation", according to the Catholic Church in England and Wales. Each jubilee year starts with the Pope opening ...

Pope Francis, Bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, who worked to instill progressive influences on the global church while maintaining unity with conservatives amid years of ...

Argentinian-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the Catholic Church's 266th pope and the first ... he didn't send an aide to pay his hotel bill in Rome, but took care of it himself.