Music icon Stevie Wonder, best known for his songs "Isn't She Lovely," "Superstition," "Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) ...

Six weeks before American Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the activist group Survivors Network of those Abused ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope ...

This hole in the Graffiti Wall marked with Latin and Greek writing was found to contain bones, fragments of cloth, and other belongings believed to be associated with the Apostle Peter.

Catholic cardinals from all around the the world will be locked in the Vatican today to decide on the successor to Pope ...

The 16th century church, built over the traditional tomb of the apostle St. Peter, is one of the largest Catholic ...

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

The announcement "Habemus Papam" — "We have a pope" — from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica is followed first by the revel ...

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he was ordained in 1975 and appointed by Pope John Paul II in 1998 as bishop of Rapid City, South ...

Another 500 years would pass before Pope John II, who was head of the church from 533 to 535 ... out of respect for the first pope, St. Peter the Apostle – but also perhaps because of a centuries-old ...