Pope Francis died on April 21, 2025. Many world leaders are expected to attend his funeral in Vatican City, including ...

The Holy See remains Taiwan’s only European ally, even as the Catholic Church deepens historic diplomatic and religious ...

Hundreds of thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, a day after Pope Francis' funeral, for another ceremony to ...

CATHOLIC Church sex abuse survivors have no hope in whoever is nominated to lead the Vatican following the death of Pope ...

Pope Francis, who chose his papal name after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

The funeral drew world leaders, including President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, who had a talk in the ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

The tomb was opened on the second of nine days of official mourning for Francis, after which a conclave will be held to elect ...

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

The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the new bishop of Rome.

The Vatican is grieving the first head of the Catholic Church from the Americas and Saturday marks the beginning of the ...

One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...