Pope Francis is the spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics who preaches for a more open church and empathy for ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, presided over the Easter vigil Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.

The Vatican is opening the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely on the sidelines ...

VATICAN CITY (AP ... unannounced visits — including one in which he wasn’t dressed in his papal white cassock — to pray in St. Peter’s Basilica and St. Mary Major basilica across ...

VATICAN CITY (AP ... unannounced visits — including one in which he wasn’t dressed in his papal white cassock — to pray in St. Peter’s Basilica and St. Mary Major basilica across ...

Antoni Gaudí, the celebrated Catalan long nicknamed “God’s architect” for designing Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, has been put on the path to sainthood by the Vatican. In a statement ...

(photo: Victoria Isabel Cardiel/EWTN News / EWTN) Kristina Millare/CNA Vatican April 15, 2025 A new Vatican-commissioned sculpture by Canadian artist Timothy P. Schmalz titled “Be Welcoming” w ...

Pope Francis is recovering from pneumonia. He delegates Holy Week services to cardinals. He is expected to make appearances. He made a surprise cameo at Palm Sunday Mass and visited St. Peter's ...

The authors of a book published Thursday said the Vatican knew about sexual abuse allegations against French charity icon Abbe Pierre as early as the 1950s. The Catholic cleric -- who founded the ...

Thousands of people gathered in the Vatican's St. Peter's Basilica to witness the Easter week mass on Holy Thursday. Thousands of worshippers filled the Vatican's St Peter’s Basilica on Holy ...

Priests in white vestments renew their ordination promises during the Vatican's Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday, April 17, 2025. Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA In his homily, Pope Francis also ...