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 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.

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 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 ...