VATICAN CITY — While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, ...

The Vatican says Pope Francis is in critical condition after he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required ...

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

The announcement on Saturday evening indicated that Francis’ medical condition had become more complicated since an update ...

Planning a trip to Italy this year? You’re likely going to have to consider your plans a bit more than in previous years, as this one’s special: it’s the Jubilee Year, a Roman Catholic religious event ...

Welcoming me at the entrance of the Vatican Library is Don Giacomo Cardinali, commissioner of the Exhibition Hall and ...

A man climbed onto the high altar of St Peter’s Basilica and hurled candelabra to the ground in front of shocked visitors there for the Jubilee year. The masked vandal desecrated the altar by ...

VATICAN—Another woman was appointed at the ... as head of the General Secretariat of the Government of the Vatican City State. Italian Sister Raffaella Petrini, who currently serves as secretary ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Wale’s Tomos Williams, left, has his kick charged down by Italy’s Federico Ruzza during the Six Nations ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Easter week begins on Palm Sunday, which is when the Pope holds a special mass in Saint Peter’s Square in Vatican City. Even though this is ...

But it was only made official by Pope Pius V in 1570. Mainly, in Vatican City and throughout Rome and Italy, people celebrate Saint Joseph’s Day by attending special masses, joining in parades, ...