As the bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled, signaling the election of a new pope, American Catholics gathered in Rome expressed both surprise and hope for the future of the church. Among them was ...

Cardinals entered St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday for a final Mass before the conclave to elect the successor to Pope Francis after his death last month. The Mass comes before the private ...

WORCESTER ― The former St. Peter-Marian High School building is back on the market, after plans to build a senior housing complex on the site evidently fell through. The former Catholic high ...

St. Peter’s Basilica, including the Vatican Grottoes (the underground crypt where many popes are buried), currently houses the remains of approximately 91 popes of Rome. This number, which is ...

Pope Francis’ funeral took place in St. Peter’s Square early Saturday. He will be buried at St. Mary Major basilica, which is outside the Vatican. Since his death on April 21, the day after ...

April 24 (UPI) --Vatican authorities kept St. Peter's Basilica open all night as an estimated 50,000 people lined up around St. Peter's Square and out of the Vatican City into Rome for a chance to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican opened St. Peter’s Basilica to the general ... bowed and made a sign of the cross, followed by small groups of bishops, ushers, priests and nuns.

As the sun climbed over the colonnades of St. Peter's Square this morning ... many pausing to cross themselves or bow their heads. No chatter. Just a shared, sacred silence, interrupted only ...

Whether you’re Catholic or not, it’s hard to argue with the fact that St. Peter’s ... that after Peter was crucified upside down, he was removed from his cross very quickly and gruesomely ...

Pope Francis made a surprise appearance at St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, two weeks after he finished a recent hospital stay. Vatican News reported that official appearances were not on the Pope ...

Along with a relic of the cross and the relic of the lance of St. Longinus, the Veil of Veronica occupies a place of great importance within St. Peter’s Basilica. According to tradition ...

ST. PETER — Appeals court judges on Monday upheld a St. Peter man’s jail sentence for sexual misconduct with a minor in 2021. Jeremy Alan Giefer, 51, received a 150-day sentence in jail ...