The Vatican revealed that Pope Francis died of a cerebral stroke that put him into a coma, ... Pope Francis would visit the basilica and pray before the painting of Mary holding the infant Jesus.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis presided over his weekly general audience Wednesday alongside a Palestinian-crafted Nativity scene that was missing its eyebrow-raising signature element: a keffiyeh ...

THE Pope’s last words included thanks to his nurse for encouraging him to greet the crowds in St Peter’s Square one last time, the Vatican has said. And the ailing pontiff asked the medic ...

VATICAN CITY, Holy See — A simple, marble tomb nestled in a niche of a Roman basilica beloved by Pope Francis will mark the pontiff's last resting place, the Vatican said on Thursday, releasing ...

Amid accusations by experts in canon law that the Archdiocese of Baltimore is in violation of a direct order from the Vatican, attorneys for America’s first oldest Catholic diocese say they don ...

And I think for me, I think for our team, too, there’s just been a real sense that you need to surrender the plans that we have, and realize that we need to take the time necessary to mourn the ...

VATICAN CITY — World leaders and rank-and-file Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for people on the peripheries and reflected his ...

The Vatican Weighs In on Virgin Mary Apparitions at Medjugorje In June 1981, six children aged 10 to 16 claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hilltop near the town. Catholic believers ...

The Vatican kept the basilica open through the night to accommodate them, but it wasn’t enough. When the doors closed to the general public at 7 p.m. on Friday, mourners were turned away in droves.

THE Vatican has released pictures showing Pope Francis in an open coffin during the rite of confirmation of the pontiff’s death. The leader of the Catholic Church, 88, died from a cerebral st… ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is providing its long-awaited assessment on one of the more contested aspects of Roman Catholicism in recent years: the reported "apparitions" of the Virgin Mary ...