Outcry over proposed norms in the North Carolina diocese is rising to international attention, as it represents the first ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church. Vice President JD Vance ...

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

Cardinals have entered St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican to celebrate a final Mass before the conclave to elect the next pope. The Mass precedes the secretive, ritual-filled process to find a new ...

We are here to speak about Carlo. As you know, the canonization was delayed. But it was a beautiful surprise because now we ...

Francis himself quipped that his successor would be John XXIV, after the progressive Vatican II-era ... some Catholic groups that can be considered traditionalists,” Regoli said. A new pope ...

Pope Francis has been laid to rest, the conclave has been assembled and, after due deliberation by the participating cardinals, the world at last has seen white smoke wafting from the Sistine Chapel ...

On the morning of May 7, 2025, St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican hosted one of the most symbolic and spiritually significant ceremonies of the Catholic ... the new Pope. What is the Mass ...

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the revelation of the new pontiff’s baptismal name, in Latin, followed by his papal ...