Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

Pope Francis wasn’t afraid to wield the Catholic Church’s moral authority, which remains a potent force in world politics.

“I believe the Holy Spirit always intervenes in the choosing of the next pope,” the Rev. Halmar Adolis Calix, a priest from ...

St. John Paul II called Faustina’s canonization and Divine Mercy Sunday the happiest day of his life — a summit moment of his ...

He is also one of 338 residents who still manage to live on St. Paul, something that has become significantly more ...

Thousands of Catholic faithful are expected to descend upon Rome in the coming weeks — and not only to mourn Pope Francis.

St. John Paul II entrusted the world to divine mercy as he consecrated the International Shrine of the Divine Mercy in ...

When the prohibition regarding the Divine Mercy message was lifted by Pope St. Paul VI, Sister Faustina Kowalska of the ...

The decision by Pope Francis to break with tradition and be buried at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome rather ...

Video shows Pope Francis’ tomb inside Rome’s St. Mary Major’s Basilica where he was laid to rest Roman Catholic faithful ...

While the pope was buried in Italy, people from all over the world are feeling a great sense of loss with his passing.

A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying ...