Rome is always teeming, and Easter usually kicks off the long tourist season. Up to 250,000 are expected to attend the Pope's ...

Thousands of people have begun filing through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis at the start of three days of public viewing ahead of his funeral ...

The death of Pope Francis this week marks the end of a historic papacy and the beginning of a significant transition for the ...

The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to choose the new pope. Here's what happens next.

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

Following the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88, a papacy expert elaborated on the process for electing a new pope in ...

The White House and Vatican have had a relationship stretching back to at least 1919, and includes Pope John Paul II and ...

Tomasz Wisniewski met Pope Francis during a private audience at the Vatican calling it 'one of the most meaningful moments of ...

The Philippines is poised to make history as three Filipino cardinals—Luis Antonio Tagle, Jose Advincula, and Pablo Virgilio ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A popular saying in Vatican circles is that if you “enter a conclave as pope, you leave as a cardinal.” ...

Here's a look at the well-choreographed transition process and what experts including the Rev. Robin Ryan of the Catholic ...