VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of young people from around the world had come to Rome expecting to rejoice this weekend in the ...

Cardinals this week will start in-depth discussions on planning the conclave to choose Pope Francis' successor. No date has ...

Some see the byword as a rallying call in a conservative campaign to reverse Francis’ push for a more inclusive church.

Pope Francis, who chose his papal name after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

At what was to be a somber goodbye for Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square on Saturday, a style controversy hijacked part of the attention and it involved President Donald Trump, Prince William, and an ...

Cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a successor to Pope Francis in a highly secretive process that could ...

With Pope Francis laid to rest, all eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See, Pietro Parolin, to discuss ...

A non-European pope would make sense, given that Catholicism is growing in Africa and Asia, while church attendance is ...

The Ukrainian president said his first face-to-face meeting with Mr Trump since their public row at the White House could be "historic".

The leaders discussed the 'positive progress' made towards an end to the war in a meeting after the Pope's funeral.