The parishioners of Ss. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church have been granted a reprieve from the church’s ordered merger ...

A simplified papal funeral will make a fitting farewell for a pontiff who just three days after his surprise election ...

So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the ...

The Vatican said more than 90,000 people had bid farewell to the pontiff by Thursday evening at the basilica, which will stay ...

The Vatican is grieving the first head of the Catholic Church from the Americas and Saturday marks the beginning of the ...

Pope Francis waves as he leaves after celebrating the beatification ceremony of Pope Paul VI, and a Mass for the closing of a ...