VATICAN CITY (AP) — Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday: Dec. 17, ...

Pope Francis’ beloved soccer club in his native Buenos Aires, San Lorenzo, celebrated a Mass late Wednesday dedicated to its ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of people filed through the central aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects ...

Sister Carolyn Puccio joined MPR News host Cathy Wurzer on Morning Edition Tuesday to reflect on the pope’s accomplishments and shortfalls, and her hopes for his successor.

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date of Easter. But this Sunday will mark a special moment for Christians, ...

Many Catholic Latinos across the state of Washington are mourning the death of Pope Francis – a pope who, they say, not only ...

European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...

A country once seen as a citadel of global Catholicism had seen plummeting church attendance as the moral credibility of bishops and priests was undermined by the twin forces of secularisation and ...

and their twin girls Elise and Juliette Allen, 12. Ms Pousson, who is herself Catholic, said: “The main reason I wanted to come to Rome being raised Catholic and how many generations have been ...

Vatican City, an independent nation located entirely within the city of Rome, does have a wall around ... We must all think about those who have less.'" The twin cities Ciudad Juárez and El ...

The Colossal company has named its two new male dire wolves — a pair of six-month old adolescents — Romulus and Remus, after the mythological twin founders of Rome, who were said to have been ...