VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis on Sunday gave the Roman Catholic Church new saints, including hundreds of 15th-century martyrs who were beheaded for refusing to convert to Islam, as he led his first ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Read the full text of Pope Francis' homily from his Mass at Pope Francis' homily at Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. This morning I learned something about ...

Tap on the blue circle to take a look at photos from the funeral for Pope Francis. 1 of 28 The coffin of Pope Francis arrives at St. Mary Major Basilica for his burial ceremony, in Rome, Saturday, ...

Pope Leo XIV proclaimed the first two saints of his papacy in a historic ceremony at St. Peter’s Square in Rome on Sunday, including the first of the millennial generation. Blesseds Carlo Acutis and ...

ISTANBUL (CNS) – Pope Leo XIV, like his two immediate predecessors, visited the so-called Blue Mosque in Turkey’s capital; he ...

Pope Leo XIV said Thursday that the world needs hope as he prayed at the tomb of Saint Francis in Assisi. "Being able to come ...

Pope Francis's first canonization ceremony was a record-breaking one. The new pontiff named over 800 new saints on Sunday. That's already almost double the number of saints declared by Pope John Paul ...

The Vatican then sent out a corrected version of its bulletin about the trip, removing reference to the planned "brief moment ...

Following the example of St. Francis of Assisi, bishops are called to be close to the people in their dioceses and ...

According to the Vatican Press Office, at the conclusion of the meeting with the bishops of the CEI, Pope Leo XIV traveled to ...