Tens of thousands of people are streaming into St. Peter's Square for the formal installation service of history's first ...

Born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa in Italy, Benedict XV’s time as pontiff was largely overshadowed by World War I.

Matteo Zuppi, known for his advocacy for migrants and his long-standing work with the Community of Sant’Egidio.

At Masses across Rome and socioeconomic lines, Catholics prayed the next pope focuses on poverty and peace days before the conclave that will elect Pope Francis’ successor.

One of the top papabili (likely popes) among the conclave cardinals is a man on a mission from late Pope Francis, Ukraine envoy, Bologna Archbishop and Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) Chair Matteo ...

Angelina Jolie opened up developing a profound connection with the legendary opera singer Maria Callas, whom she plays in the biopic Maria. Angelina Jolie in a still from Maria, which releases on ...

If you ask an Italian, almost five decades of having foreigners as pope is enough. The pope is the bishop of Rome, and it is ...

Whether in the squat 1980s concrete church of San Paolo della Croce, next to a notorious public housing project, or facing millennium-old golden mosaics in Santa Maria in Trastevere, Catholics ...