At Masses across Rome and socioeconomic lines, Catholics prayed the next pope focuses on poverty and peace days before the ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

A U.S. tourist visiting Rome needed 80 stitches after he was impaled while climbing over a fence at the Colosseum, local ...

Inside the Sistine Chapel, Daniel Cardinal DiNardo reflects on unity and leadership as cardinals prepare to elect a new Pope.

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With Pope Francis' passing, the Roman Catholic Church is focused on electing his replacement. Here's what that means.

He will be the first pope in over 350 years to be buried in Rome at St. Mary Major, where only seven other popes are buried. Mosaics from the fifth century and a ceiling gilded with gold said to ...

Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

Fiorello Maffei, a 58-year-old who lives in London, returned to Italy for the now postponed canonisation of Carlo, a Londoner ...

Raniero Mancinelli, an 86-year-old tailor from Rome, is preparing a cassock for the new pope, whose selection will take place ...

The head of the basilica that is housing Pope Francis's tomb says it reflects his “humble, simple and essential" life.