President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine are among the world leaders who plan to attend the funeral. The ...

With St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, it is one of four basilicas in Rome granted special status by ...

Schmalz first met the pope in St. Peter’s Square soon after his election in 2013, where Francis blessed a model of a statue Schmalz made of a homeless man bearing the signs of Jesus’ Passion ...

Pope Francis famously exhorted young Catholics to "shake things up" by taking the gospel to "favelas, slums and shantytowns.

Located on Tran Phu Street, the church derives its nickname from a 66 cm-tall bronze rooster statue perched atop its bell tower ... referencing the biblical story of Saint Peter denying Jesus three ...

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

The funeral Mass for Pope Francis has concluded at St Peter’s Square in the Vatican City. Cortege wound its way through the centre of the Eternal City to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, where ...

The most surprising aspect is that this artifact is the oldest of its kind in Europe and suggests that Neanderthals, far from being primitive, were already innovating in the production of ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and ...

Europe is home to some of the oldest buildings in the world still in use today, properties that include a 2,000-year-old ...

He is recognized as giving a clear witness to the life, love and joy of Jesus in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, a point of major reform in modern Church history. This witness has ...