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 ...

Sam Nivola and Iris Apatow have been publicly dating since 2024, when Nivola shared pictures of Apatow visiting him while filming The White Lotus in Thailand, though it’s unknown how long they ...

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 ...

A day after Pope Francis surprised pilgrims by appearing inside St. Peter’s Basilica in a wheelchair, draped in a blanket and wearing a white undershirt and black pants instead of his usual ...

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 ...

Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Vatican secretary for relations with states and international organizations, and Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s minister of foreign affairs, had a phone call on Friday in ...

(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 ...