The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun generating test images of the night sky, but the big reveal is expected ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell presided over the first ritual of Francis's funeral rites, known as the “rite of the ascertainment of death and deposition in the coffin.” ...

Vatican City, where the Roman Catholic Church is located, is not only famous for being the home of the Pope but also for the ...

In the papal conclave to elect a new pope, here's a look at what the color of smoke (black or white) means after each vote.

The death of a pope triggers a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one. It involves sacred oaths, the piercing of ballots ...

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

The Vatican said the Catholic leader, who suffered from chronic lung disease and recently spent 38 days in the hospital for a ...

He was a pope who understood the power of a simple touch: caressing the deformed head of a man in St. Peter’s Square, washing ...

Francis moderated the authoritarianism of his predecessors but more change is needed; the cardinals must elect someone who ...

Papal experts have lauded the Oscar-nominated film as one of the more accurate depictions of the closed-door Vatican ...

A new study finds that fragments of tumor DNA in a patient's bloodstream could show that they are at high risk of a melanoma ...