Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE-- The tapestry depicting late Pope John Paul I, hanging from ...

Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more ...

Holy Hours are bring held in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital where Pope Francis is being treated as well as at other places ...

Are we next going to have “St. Paul’s bed?” Well ... If you walk into St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, you will see the nave encircled by a huge golden band with Latin words in black on ...

The Vatican has set in motion nightly prayers for Pope Francis in the hope that he might recover and get back to leading the ...

Pope Francis’s battle with double pneumonia is the most serious health complication the pontiff has suffered from since ...

A popular summer music festival in Minneapolis that was held at Boom Island Park in 2024 has announced it will "pause" its 2025 event as organizers "consider new options" for 2026.

Pope Francis is in critical condition with early kidney failure. Many people around the world and here at home are praying ...

Pope Francis remained in critical condition and blood tests showed kidney insufficiency but, according to the Vatican, he ...

and the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls. A fifth door will also be located at a prison. Since many cannot travel to Rome for a pilgrimage, bishops worldwide designated their cathedrals and ...