Hundreds of thousands of mourners — monarchs and presidents, cardinals and sisters, Jubilee pilgrims and tourists — turned ...

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary ...

The celebrant was Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State throughout the Francis papacy. He described the pope to the young people as “a shining witness of a Church that bends down with ...

He made the comments while holding meetings with the senior leaders of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Silvano Maria Tomasi and ...

With Pope Francis in his final resting place, the thoughts of the world's 1.3bn Catholics turn to who will be his successor ...

People lined up from the early hours of Sunday to bid farewell to Pope Francis in front of his tomb in the Papal Basilica of ...

The importance of these artifacts transcends history or archaeology. Their captivity in gentile hands, if that is still the ...