Pope Francis, the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, will be mourned and buried at the Basilica of Saint Mary Major ...

After submitting paperwork to the Vatican (couples need to have been married at a Catholic church in the prior two months), the pair received approval to join a papal audience alongside other ...

The passing of the head of the Catholic Church has deeply impacted both sports fans and athletes. Pope Francis blesses a fan of Italian soccer club SS Lazio during a papal audience for athletes ...

Pope Francis, the 266th Bishop of Rome and Sovereign of the Vatican City, has died on Easter Monday. Bells tolled in church ...

Africa is home to some of the fastest-growing Catholic populations in the world and has over 250 million Catholics.

Benedict added solar panels to the roof of the papal audience hall and purchased carbon credits to help make Vatican City fully carbon neutral. Francis took that focus worldwide during his papacy ...

Dozens of heads of state attended the funeral service for Pope Francis, who died Monday at age 88, at St. Peter’s Square today. Follow here for the latest.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday opened the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely ...

Choir sang for Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square Pope Francis meets the late Owen Rafferty who sang for Pope John Paul II in Drogheda in 1979, during the visit of the Drogheda Male Voice Choir ...

The U.S. president confirmed Monday that he will attend Pope Francis's funeral in Rome alongside his wife, Melania Trump.

By Archbishop Mark Coleridge The surprises kept coming till the end. We held our breath when he was in hospital, but then he ...