The Vatican releases first images of Pope Francis, showing him in his casket with the Vatican secretary of state praying over ...

An Irish-born American cardinal was entrusted by Pope Francis to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive, but according to a study 70% of them ...

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza ...

The faithful in Pope Francis’ hometown lit candles in the church where he found God as a teenager. They packed the cathedral ...

Zurab Tsereteli, a prominent Georgian and Russian sculptor known for colossal, often controversial, monuments, has died at 92 ...

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens has launched her U.S. Senate campaign in Michigan in what will undoubtedly be an expensive and ...

Pope Francis’ passion for soccer was evident throughout his pontificate. A lifelong supporter of Argentine club San Lorenzo, ...

People have gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican to mourn Pope Francis, the first Latin American pope who charmed ...

Every pope has his critics. But Pope Francis’ conservative opponents were unique in that they actually had a living alternate ...

A change in popes is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the ...