The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

After years of discussion, Saint Boniface church in Manitowoc is officially set to close.In a press release issued Saturday, ...

The “Mass for the Care of Creation,” inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’, has prayers and Mass readings designed ...

The town of Castel Gandolfo sits high on the edge of a volcanic crater lake just 25 kilometres from Rome. Its villas, palaces ...

What we know about Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the Vatican's interim manager until a new pope is elected Farrell announced the death of Pope Francis on Monday.

Everyone from cooks to translators to elevator operators took an oath of secrecy at the Vatican on Monday — under threat of automatic excommunication — to prepare for this week's conclave.

The Catholic Church's cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to choose a successor to Pope Francis, as the 2025 papal conclave begins.

Is the Vatican its own country? What to know about the world's smallest sovereign nation Only about 100 acres in size, Vatican City is the smallest independent nation in the world. It is led by ...

The push for a more traditional pontiff – one who speaks less off the cuff and promotes fewer disruptive initiatives than Pope Francis did – might come down to a matter of religious aesthetics ...

In your editorial “An American Pope, Leo XIV” (May 9), you write that “the cardinals had elected Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago native, as the next head of the Catholic Church and the ...

Catholics worldwide mourned the death this week of Pope Francis, the first Jesuit to lead the Catholic Church and a strong voice for the marginalized and the dispossessed. Born Jorge Mario ...

The Vatican’s Jubilee Report promises a reset for global finance in the name of justice. But by sidestepping calls for equity ...