Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIII, who served from 1878 to 1903, led the church into the modern world, emphasizing its moral authority beyond ...

ROME, Italy (AFP) — Iga Swiatek, who is still looking for her first title of 2025 as she prepares to defend her Rome title, on Tuesday blamed her quest for perfectionism for the difficulties she ...

A new study, though, has posited that a climactic event called the Late Antique Little Ice Age may have been the straw that ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is believed to be an ancient Roman gladiator. Artists have long depicted ...

Tens of thousands of people have lined the four-mile route between St. Peter's Basilica and Rome's Basilica of Saint Mary Major, where Pope Francis will be laid to rest this afternoon. People ...

Against the ancient backdrop of Rome’s Colosseum, thousands gathered Friday evening for the solemn Via Crucis procession, where Cardinal Baldassare Reina carried the cross on behalf of Pope ...

A clear example is the inability of a woman to become the Pope of Rome. The first thing to understand is that the procedure the Catholic Church follows to choose its new leader has remained ...

Thousands of mourners have gathered in Rome to pay their respects at the tomb of Pope Francis, a day after his funeral drew world leaders and hundreds of thousands of the faithful. On Sunday ...