It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

Bukas na ililibing ang Santo Papa sa Basilica of Saint Mary Major sa Rome, Italy. Nabisita 'yan ni Susan noong 2019. Panoorin ang video.Hosted by the country’s top anchors and hosts, 'Unang Hirit' is ...

In the case of Francis, whose funeral is due to be held in Vatican City in Rome on Apr. 26, the cardinals of the Catholic Church will be called upon to gather in Rome. Cardinals are the most ...

The papacy of Pope Francis ended with the same core doctrine for LGBTQ+ people that he had inherited. The Catholic Church still rejected same-sex marriage and condemned any sexual relations between ...

The last known attempt at external interference in a papal conclave occurred in 1903 when Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria ... The Catholic community can only pray that, through their deliberations, ...

This is not merely a biographical detail. His papacy was transformative in shaping a Catholic Church that was not focused solely on Europe. He shifted its attention from the old continent to the ...

His reforms made the body more representative of the global Catholic community, while the cardinals he selected, by and large, share his vision of the Church. All of this makes it more likely that ...

The Cologne Cathedral is seen lit up at night. The Gothic-era church is on of the widely recognised Catholic landmarks in Germany today. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Thomas Banneyer Germany has ...

And as a result his father’s final resting place at St John’s Catholic Church in Middletown, Co. Armagh, is now out of bounds to him and he’s forced to peer at it over a cemetery wall.

About six months after he was elected head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis made a surprising admission. A Jesuit priest was interviewing Francis when he departed from a pre-approved list of ...

He preached for a more inclusive Catholic Church, and in a 2023 interview, he said, "being gay is not a crime." Those are values that Old Saint Patrick's Church upholds as it continues to welcome ...

As pontiff, Francis, who died Monday at age 88, sought to bring the Church closer to the people ... agreed to share responsibility for choosing Catholic bishops in China with the Communist ...