The Vatican’s secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, on Friday consecrated a new church at a place on the banks of the Jordan River that the Catholic Church officially recognizes as the ...

In Jesus Wept, investigative journalist Philip Shenon examines the last seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal ...

Jonathan Roumie, the actor who plays Jesus on the hit biblical series "The Chosen," met Pope Leo XIV this week at the Vatican ...

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church's 266th pontiff, was the first Jesuit to lead the church in its nearly 2,000-year history. Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, died April 21 at age 88 .

There have been 266 popes in the Catholic Church, according to the Vatican. St. Peter, who was one of Jesus' apostles, is widely considered to be the first pope and the longest serving pope in the ...

Peter’s Chapel, a Catholic chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland, partnered with researchers to install a digital version of “Jesus” in a confessional — an experiment called “Deus in Machina ...