A U.S. tourist visiting Rome needed 80 stitches after he was impaled while climbing over a fence at the Colosseum, local ...

At Masses across Rome and socioeconomic lines, Catholics prayed the next pope focuses on poverty and peace days before the ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

Inside the Sistine Chapel, Daniel Cardinal DiNardo reflects on unity and leadership as cardinals prepare to elect a new Pope.

The College of Cardinals celebrated the ninth and final Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on Sunday, May 4, the third Sunday of Easter.

An AI-generated image of President Donald Trump dressed as the pope is drawing criticism from some Catholics after it was ...

Fiorello Maffei, a 58-year-old who lives in London, returned to Italy for the now postponed canonisation of Carlo, a Londoner ...

I never knew how much I wanted to go to Rome until I got there.

Alongside the gossip and the gallows humor, the ancient and solemn rituals continue,” Chiara Barzini writes from Italy.

The new pope will be the successor to Francis I, who died on April 21 at age 88 after a 12-year papacy. Here's everything you ...

The papal conclave—the election of the next Pope—is set to begin on May 7, and will see 133 cardinals gather to vote.

The head of the basilica that is housing Pope Francis's tomb says it reflects his “humble, simple and essential" life.