During Eastertime – the current liturgical season, spanning 50 days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost – the prayer is ...

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

May the Lord preserve him, give him a long life, make him blessed upon the earth, and not hand him over to the power of his ...

Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis. Here’s what to know.

(CNS photo/Vatican Media) The conclave to elect a new pope, scheduled to begin May 7, is governed by two texts: a rule book and a prayer book. The rule book is the apostolic constitution, "Universi ...

During his Angelus on Sunday, Pope Francis prays for victims of a terrorist attack in Columbia, and expresses his sorrow over those feared dead in shipwrecks in the Mediterranean He also asks for ...

Every general audience and Sunday Angelus address was used as an opportunity by the Pontiff to ask people to pray for peace to reign in Ukraine and Russia. Entrusting every man, woman and child ...

“Enjoy your lunch!” he used to say to people who gathered every week outside the basilica for the traditional Roman Catholic prayer, the Angelus. After the formality of Benedict XVI, whom he ...

The pope's funeral was held at St. Peter’s Square, the same place where he often celebrated Mass and spoke to the faithful. Pope Francis waves from his studio's window overlooking St. Peter's Square ...

Pope Francis never set foot in his native Argentina during his papacy. That left many of the faithful in his homeland feeling puzzled and snubbed by the world’s first Latin American pope.

Pope Francis appears at the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome for the Angelus blessing after a month ... It’s a time for the deepest prayer — even for saving others. Recall how Pope St. John Paul ...