Nearly 200 worshippers from the Archdiocese of New York, lead by Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, hoped to meet Pope Francis on their week-long trip to Rome this week.

As the bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled, signaling the election of a new pope, American Catholics gathered in Rome ...

ROME (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday paid his respects to Pope Francis, occupying a front-row seat in sunlit St.

During Eastertime – the current liturgical season, spanning 50 days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost – the prayer is ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica ...

In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica ... which God has prepared for us. To the Church of Rome, a special greeting: we must seek together ...

Habemus papam!” Those words echoed to the faithful around the world, including those waiting outside St. Peter’s Basilica as ...

Vatican City — Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office ...

American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

For the second Sunday in a row, the balcony from where the pope prays the traditional Angelus remained empty. An unusual ...