White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

Vatican Media, via Reuters The Roman Catholic Church is deeply divided ... the next two ballots will take place around 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Thursday. Casting, reading and incinerating the ...

A towering symbol of compassion ... Pope Francis was the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church. He passed away at the age of 88. The news was confirmed by the Vatican in ...

They celebrated his teachings and a legacy that will help guide the future of the Roman Catholic ... said Steven P. Millies, the director of the Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union ...

Tonight at 8 o’clock in Rome (2 p.m. ET), Cardinal Kevin Farrell began ... The demise of the first Argentine to lead the Roman Catholic Church set into motion a series of rituals, some of ...

Here’s what we know so far about Pope Leo’s inauguration Mass. The inauguration Mass is due to take place on Sunday, May 18, ...

“The ring is marked with a cross on the upper part as a symbol of the end of the papacy,” Claudio Franchi, vice president of the Roman Guild of Goldsmiths, told US network CBS in ...

The burial place is located in the niche of the side aisle, between the Pauline Chapel (Chapel of Our Lady of Health of the Roman People ... the Marian image became a symbol of identity that ...

He was the first Jesuit to serve as pope of the Roman Catholic Church ... Holy Doors of St. Peter’s Basilica to Catholic pilgrims worldwide as a symbol of grace and forgiveness.

Pope Leo XIV has taken the reins as leader of the Catholic Church ... that the Heads and Members of the Institutions of the Roman Curia, as well as the Secretaries and the President of the ...