While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...

Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

The work by American artist Bill Fontana transforms the resonances of the 9-ton bell into an immersive acoustic experience.

Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...

The Vatican said Francis hadn’t had any more respiratory crises since Saturday night but was still receiving high flows of ...

The Feast of the Chair of St. Peter isn’t about furniture—it’s about the foundation of papal teaching and authority.

The death of a sitting pope initiates a profound period of mourning and transition within the Roman Catholic Church, marked ...

The pope was admitted to hospital on February 14 where he is fighting a complex respiratory infection and pneumonia in both ...

The Vatican allows Catholic marriages to take place in the Chapel of the Choir in St. Peter’s Basilica and in the small city state’s seven other churches. People from all over the world ask to ...

Pope Francis remains under treatment for a “polymicrobial” respiratory infection at Gemelli Hospital in Rome. Nicknamed ...