For a particularly meaningful way to visit Rome’s major churches - and to sidestep the crowds - try following in the ...

Its grottoes contain the remains of popes, and its vast, marbled interior is home to some of the Vatican’s greatest treasures, including Michelangelo’s Pieta sculpture and Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s ...

These are the words used by the “protodeacon” of the College of Cardinals to announce from the gallery of St. Peter’s Basilica that a new pope has been elected. He then says the new pope’s ...

Cardinals entered St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday for a final Mass before the conclave to elect the successor to Pope Francis after his death last month. The Mass comes before the private ...

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Sunday’s Mass for the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate will mark the official beginning of his ministry as successor of Peter and bishop of Rome.

It’s just remarkable to see someone I know as the pope,” said the Rev. Joe Roccasalva, an Augustinian priest who grew up in ...

As the bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled, signaling the election of a new pope, American Catholics gathered in Rome expressed both surprise and hope for the future of the church. Among them was ...