This reasoning is echoed in a private reply from the Apostolic Penitentiary (the Vatican “department” responsible for ...

Maybe we need to ask ourselves, all these centuries later: are we listening?

However, along the immense walls surrounding the Vatican, it was business as usual May 7 as hundreds of tourists joined the ...

At Mass before the conclave that will elect the next pope, the dean of the College of Cardinals urged his brothers to choose ...

Police officers, firefighters, law officials, first responders and others gathered May 6 at St. Patrick Catholic Church in ...

Addressing a May 1 panel discussion on “The Legacy of Pope Francis and the Future of the Church,” Dominican Father Aquinas ...

Dancers from the Chinese Catholic Community of New Jersey participate in the call to prayer featuring sacred songs and ...

ROME (CNS) – In a full church on a Monday evening in Rome, just two days before the conclave to elect a new pope was set to ...

The main concelebrants at the memorial Mass, which marked the final day of the " novendiali " – the nine days of official ...

An AI-generated image of U.S. President Donald Trump dressed as the pope “was not good,” Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New ...

The Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain and the Sistine Chapel usually top the "must see" list of visitors to Rome and the Vatican.

At least 15 days after the death of the pope and not more than 20, the cardinals meet in the morning to celebrate the ...