Pope Leo XIV has made waves with some of his fashion choices, returning to much of the traditional pomp of popes past.

The world's smallest country has a big budget problem. The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds. It primarily ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign ... Reese Incident Suitcase full of jewels: How past administrations ...

When the conclave's cardinals finish casting their ballots under Michelangelo's frescoed ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, the 267th pope will have to decide whether to continue Francis’ policies.

and maintain the majestic beauty appropriate for the election of the next head of the 1.4 billion strong Catholic Church. The cardinals will be living in residences on Vatican grounds, and they ...

Cardinals will celebrate a special mass in St Peter’s, the church ... Vatican chimney installed ahead of papal conclave The basilica, one of the largest churches in the world, is a jewel of ...

Anna Rowlands, who served as an expert appointed to the synod, or a major Vatican assembly, fretted over the future of a less top-down church. “There is a danger of seeing synodality as associat ...

I have two children who are our jewels.” “We face everything with a smile,” her son, Alessandro, added. Michael Busuioc, a Romanian man with Parkinson’s disease, lives in the Vatican ...

When the leader of the Catholic Church dies, one of the first things ... centuries-old story behind the Fisherman's Ring, the jewel of the Vatican that doesn't just sparkle; it rules.

VATICAN CITY — The conclave to pick the successor to Pope Francis will begin May 7, the Vatican announced Monday, setting the date of the secretive rite inside the Sistine Chapel at a time when ...

Buda Mendes—Getty Images Among the mourners clustered along the riverbank next to the Vatican were scores ... central train station. The church is a Baroque jewel in an area populated by ...

About 250,000 people attended the funeral service for Pope Francis on Saturday morning in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, before the late leader of the Catholic Church was transported to the ...