As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

Hundreds of cardinals attended mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, to mark the end of a nine-day mourning ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming conclave at the Vatican ...

Before he died, Pope Francis donated one of his popemobiles to be converted into a mobile health unit to serve the children ...

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...

All mobile phone signal will be deactivated in the Vatican on Wednesday ahead of the highly secretive conclave to elect the ...

Just days before the conclave to elect a new pope begins, on May 7, believers around the world expressed their desire for ...

"The court is attempting to handle the matter in such a way as to help Father Peter and to avoid scandal to the Church," the ...

One of late Pope Francis’s iconic popemobiles is being repurposed into a mobile clinic for children in Gaza, Vatican News ...

While Pope Francis accomplished a lot in his 12-year papacy, he left much unfinished business and many challenges for his ...