The church needs the site at Church Avenue and Walnut Street for accessible parking. A nine-story hotel had been planned ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church. Vice President JD ...

In 2013, his first year as pope, he drew more than 7.3 million faithful to St. Peter’s Square for his Wednesday and Sunday audiences and public prayers, according to figures supplied by the Vatican.

Now the new pope, Leo XIV, faces the task not just of shepherding the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, but of unifying a fractured American church where the church hierarchy, ordinary Catholics ...

A new pope has been elected, and in a major surprise, an American has been chosen for the first time. Robert Francis Prevost will now be known as Pope Leo XIV. In his first remarks as the leader ...

Church bells rang and crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square cheered as white smoke billowed over the Vatican on Thursday evening, announcing that the conclave had elected a new pope. 9:45 a.m. EDT ...

He appeared on the loggia of St. Peter's Square wearing the traditional red cape of the papacy — a cape that Pope Francis had eschewed on his election in 2013. Prevost had been a leading ...

Some 200,000 Catholic youth flock to St. Peter's to mourn Pope Francis 1 of 3 People attend Mass for the Vatican workers, following the funeral for Pope Francis, in St. Peter's Square at the ...

Some 200,000 Catholic Youth Flock to St. Peter's to Mourn Pope Francis By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, a day after Pope ...

Vatican holds second memorial ceremony for Pope Francis Estimated crowd of 200,000, mostly youth, flock to St. Peter's Thousands visited pope's tomb on Sunday morning VATICAN CITY, April 27 ...

His open coffin was raised on a stretcher and taken to St. Peter's Basilica in a slow procession led by the chamberlain of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Kevin Farrell.

The body of Pope Francis is carried into St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, where he will lie in state for three days. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)(Emilio Morenatti ...