The U S Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the state of Washington s new law that could require priests ...

The office is embraced by a man who knows its meaning and weight and understands the privilege he has. What a gift…’ ...

Pope Leo XIV has broken the seal on the papal apartments, marking one of his first major symbolic moments as pontiff ...

The ring and seal are destroyed or nulled after a pope’s death to prevent their future misuse to seal official documents.

Cardinals wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings Tuesday, trying to identify a possible new pope who could follow Pope Francis and make the 2,000-year-old Ca ...

The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with as many as four more rounds of voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion ...

Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled ...

The former Cardinal Robert Prevost vowed to work for unity. “I think he will inspire,” said Susan Hanssen, a professor who ...

SSC Napoli will have to wait one more week to seal the Serie A title after on Sunday being held to a goalless draw at Parma, ...

The death of Pope Francis sets into motion a series of rituals, some of which go back more than 2,000 years, including how to ...

More than 100,000 mourners filed into St. Peter's Basilica on Friday to pay their respects to Pope Francis, viewing his open coffin in the final visiting hours ahead of his funeral on Saturday.

Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome.