People gather inside St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican April 23, 2025, to view the body of Pope Francis on the first day of ...

Novels and films that include or revolve around a conclave often include nefarious plotting, or at least politicking, and ...

U.S. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, “camerlengo” or chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church, stands before the body of Pope Francis in ...

The U.S. flag flies at half-staff above the White House in Washington April 21, 2025, in honor of Pope Francis, who died that ...

Divine Mercy Sunday, is all about second chances – how God offers us the gift of mercy to repent and begin again. Coming one ...

This dynamic interplay between God’s will in all its perfection and our fallible human capacities for discernment is one ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who served as Pope Francis’s secretary of state, stands by the pope’s coffin in the chapel of his ...

In his brief final testament, Pope Francis asked to be buried at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major and said he had offered ...

Pope Francis died April 21 after suffering a stroke and heart failure, said the director of Vatican City State’s department ...

Catholics in Washington, D.C., gathered at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for a memorial ...

Later in the morning, local Churches started tolling the death knell from their bell towers. The request had come from ...

As the bells tolled 88 times across the grounds of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on April ...