"Be Welcoming," a bronze sculpture of a traveler by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz, is seen in St. Peter's Square at ...

Archbishop Caccia pointed to Pope Francis’ very first encyclical — issued in 2013 not long after his election as the 266th ...

People touch a balloon with a picture of Pope Francis outside the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral in Argentina April 26, ...

ROME (CNS) — The casket bearing the body of Pope Francis made its final journey through the streets of Rome accompanied by ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin talks to young people in St. Peter’s Square about Pope Francis’ teaching on mercy.

With the passing of Pope Francis, the world now turns its attention to two of the most extraordinary events in both religious ...

White smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel March 13, 2013, at the Vatican. Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario ...

Members of the College of Cardinals visited St. Mary Major in the afternoon April 27 to pray at Pope Francis’ tomb.

Police officers work at the scene in Vancouver, British Columbia, April 27, 2025, after a vehicle drove into a crowd ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, leads the fifth general congregation meeting of cardinals in ...

Msgr. James R. Tracy Friends of Msgr. James R. Tracy are remembering the longtime priest as a man who inspired ...

Fourteen pallbearers carry Pope Francis in his casket into St. Peter's Square for his funeral Mass on April 26. (CNS ...