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

The secret ballot for a successor hasn’t begun. But among church leaders, talk about who will next lead the 2,000-year-old ...

If Tagle were elected, it would also likely signal to the world's 1.4 billion Catholics that the cardinals want to go forward ...

World leaders, cardinals and at least 250,000 of the faithful gathered in the Vatican on Saturday morning to bid farewell to ...

Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

The Papal Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to serving the Holy Father’s wishes through donations to charitable initiatives ...

As Pope Francis was laid to rest in Rome this week, and the Vatican prepares for a historic conclave to elect a new pope, the world is left to ponder what it means to have lost such a committed ...

I never knew how much I wanted to go to Rome until I got there.

Francis opted for burial in Santa Maria Maggiore, located in Rome's most multi-cultural neighbouhood. No pope has been laid ...

With St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran, St. Paul Outside the Walls, it is one of four basilicas in Rome granted special status by ...

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