Speculation surrounding a conclave to elect a pope is a time-honored tradition. But for the impending conclave following the ...

In 2023, Pope Francis announced that he would be buried at St. Mary Major; his tomb has been prepared near the Salus Populi ...

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria ...

For a long time, a sector of the Church directed and financed from the US attempted to depose the Vatican leader in order to ...

Isabelle de Gaulmyn, who covered the Vatican for La Croix 2005-2009, reflects on Pope Francis’ 12-year papacy. From reforming ...

A full list of all the popes who have ruled the Roman Catholic Church world in the last 110 years has been compiled and ...

Pope Francis did call out Hamas as “evil” and called for them to return Israeli hostages. Yet these moments of moral clarity ...

Tom Kelly and Sarah Endacott of Lincoln were in St. Peter's Square on Sunday when Pope Francis made a surprise appearance ...

Ahead of the conclave to select the next pope, names circulating include cardinals Bo of Myanmar, Tagle of the Philippines ...

The death of Pope Francis officially came from the camerlengo, a position in the Catholic church held by a man with Dallas ...

Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died on Monday ...