Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

After that unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime experience of being a participant in a conclave with 132 other brother cardinals ...

The Rosary of the Virgin Mary ... remains … a prayer of great significance, destined to bring forth a harvest of holiness,’ ...

The French National Assembly has approved a controversial bill legalizing “assistance in dying,” a move that the country’s ...

The Vatican’s cardinals gather in conclave today to begin electing the successor to the late Pope Francis—which means the world’s attention is on a chimney attached to the Sistine Chapel.

As a salesman covering 15 Midwestern states, Patrix Heschel often would see lighted rosaries in windows and on the outside of houses. He now has one hanging above his garage door. Although Heschel ...

The Vatican will be on lockdown starting Wednesday. The secrecy surrounding the conclave is to protect the cardinals from any outside influence that might impact the way they vote. The cardinals ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. All the support staff for the cardinals who will elect the successor to Pope Francis must take ...

The Vatican has announced a date to begin the conclave. The College of Cardinals will begin the secretive voting process of choosing Pope Francis' successor on Wednesday, May 7, according to ...

We don’t know just yet what Pope Leo XIV’s handicap is—can’t find it on the GHIN app for some reason—but it’s going to be tough to lower his scores without a course at the Vatican.

Her work has previously appeared in Billboard and Reader's Digest. Getty The Vatican and the AARP — the American organization that advocates for those over 50 — are teaming up for the first ...

For over a decade, Francis had struggled to bring some transparency to the Vatican’s shadowy balance sheet. Now, in the final weeks of his life, advisers were filtering in and out of his austere ...