The U.S. flag flies at half-staff above the White House in Washington April 21, 2025, in honor of Pope Francis, who died that ...

U.S. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, “camerlengo” or chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church, stands before the body of Pope Francis in ...

This dynamic interplay between God’s will in all its perfection and our fallible human capacities for discernment is one ...

Divine Mercy Sunday, is all about second chances – how God offers us the gift of mercy to repent and begin again. Coming one ...

Pope Francis died April 21 after suffering a stroke and heart failure, said the director of Vatican City State’s department ...

In his brief final testament, Pope Francis asked to be buried at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major and said he had offered ...

Catholics in Washington, D.C., gathered at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for a memorial ...

Even the moment of the formal verification of the pope’s death takes place in the context of a prayer service “at home” in ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Tapping into the spirit and spirituality of his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis made care ...

Later in the morning, local Churches started tolling the death knell from their bell towers. The request had come from ...

Elected in March 2013 as an outsider who could reform the Roman Curia, meaning the central government of the Church, but who ...

As the bells tolled 88 times across the grounds of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on April ...