Sunday, known as the "birthday of the Church," commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles, empowering them ...

One of the greatest challenges facing Pope Leo XIV is financial. He has inherited the Holy See’s chronic, 50 million to 60 ...

The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a very big budget problem. It primarily finances the ...

Pilgrims coming to Rome will have the opportunity to see the newly restored tomb of one of the first Catholic popes.

Pfingstmontag (Whit Monday) is a public holiday in Germany, which falls this year on June 9th, but why is it a day off in the ...

U.S. Rep. French Hill led a bipartisan congressional delegation to the Vatican on Sunday, one of 14 House members selected to attend the inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV.

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Anthony Albanese, who counts Catholicism, the Rabbitohs, and the Labor Party as his three big faiths, has marked Pope Francis’ funeral with a tribute to the pontiff’s compassion, and advocacy.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis chose his place of burial in St. Mary Major Basilica, near an icon of the Madonna that he revered, because it reflects his “humble, simple and essential’’ life, the archbishop ...

Pope Francis’ scheduled meetings and appointments have been canceled until Wednesday after doctors at the Gemelli hospital in Rome where he is being treated referred to his “complex clinical situation ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday ... coincided with the start of the 2025 Holy Year celebration that he dedicated to hope, Francis called ...

The Vatican has recently provided two trucks full of ... "I saw a church really united there," the cardinal said after his ecumenical celebration. "All of us celebrated Christmas together -- it's time ...