The 135 cardinals eligible to elect the next pope will enter the Sistine Chapel to begin the conclave May 7, the Vatican ...

Information and dialogue sessions about the Trust and Hope initiative, featuring planned missionary hubs and person-to-person ...

For thousands of young teens who traveled to Rome for the Jubilee of Teenagers, the announcement of Pope Francis' death came ...

Mercy -- the cornerstone of Pope Francis' teaching and ministry -- must guide the Catholic Church through its period of ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis was “a pope among the people, with an open heart toward everyone,” said Cardinal Giovanni ...

Pope Francis' casket is driven past the Colosseum on its way toward his burial place in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in ...

When Pope Francis was elected as the first Latin American pontiff, he said his brother cardinals went out of their way to ...

The Chester-based nonprofit organization funds worldwide charitable projects championed by the Holy Father in “reaching out ...

Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, coadjutor archpriest of Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major, discussed the pope’s decision to be buried at the papal basilica some three miles outside the Vatican during a ...

Stan Termini enrolled in the master’s degree program at the university last summer and now sees “how strong, faith-rooted ...

As the Church mourns the passing of Pope Francis, the faithful are invited to gather in prayer and remembrance through ...

Given the late Pope Francis' care and concern for the poor, a representative group of them has been formally invited to ...