ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has revised the funeral rites that will be used when he dies, simplifying the rituals to emphasize ...

Pope Francis during his weekly general audience announced the canonization dates of two of the Catholic Church’s most popular ...

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian called on Pope Francis to use his influence with Christian governments to stop war in the ...

The surprise announcement came at the conclusion of the pope’s weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square as Francis ...

Carlo, who was born to Italian parents in London, was a web designer who died of leukaemia in Italy in 2006 at the age of 15.

Pope Francis will make late teen Carlo Acutis the Catholic Church’s first millennial and digital saint next year ...

In the weeks following the conclusion of the synod on synodality, Europe's bishops have been pondering its practical ...

Fernando María Cornet wrote a book in 2023 titled “Habemus Antipapam?” (“Do We Have an Antipope?”), Argentine newspaper La ...

Vatican City — Pope Francis' yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closed Saturday with recommendations that fell short of giving women more equity as hoped, but reflected the pope’s ...

“Such a blessing directly and seriously contradicts Divine Revelation and the uninterrupted, bimillennial doctrine and practice of the Catholic Church,” they said. But Pope Francis’s ...

Parts of the Roman Catholic Church are still failing to ensure clerical sexual abuse is reported adequately, Pope Francis’ commission for child protection said Tuesday, raising concerns about a ...