According to a Vatican statement ... In fact, it quotes the messages for the World Day of Peace in 1990 and 2010, from St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, respectively, which warned of ...

A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a ...

Two art restorers were putting the final touches on a months-long restoration of the tomb of Pope Urban VIII, who in 1626 ...

The Holy See Press Office told journalists during a morning press briefing on the pope’s health that the 88-year-old ...

In a written message released by the Vatican shortly after noon, Francis said he had felt God's closeness during his time in hospital. "I ask the Lord that this touch of his love might reach all ...

A historian of the Mauthausen concentration camp says US troops and the Spanish antifascists they freed were united in a ...

Pope Francis is back home in the Vatican after spending 38 days in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital where was treated for double pneumonia and survived two crises where his life was in danger.

The late Queen Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary in 1926, ruled for longer than any other monarch in British history. During her 70-year reign, the late Queen was much loved and ...

The Vatican press office announced March 18 that doctors “confirmed” an improvement in Pope Francis' clinical condition. The pope “has suspended non-invasive mechanical ventilation” and ...