On Dec. 20, Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Brian Burch as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Burch, ...

Pope Francis has approved new rites for his own funeral for when he dies to simplify rituals and be buried outside the Vatican.

Peter's Square on Jan. 5, 2025, as they gather to hear the pope pray the Angelus. Credit: Vatican Media At the start of the new year, Francis encouraged everyone to reflect on their capacity to ...

Pope Francis attended the episcopal ordination of Rome’s new auxiliary bishop and vicegerent at the Basilica of St. John Lateran Saturday afternoon. Monsignor Renato Tarantelli Baccari ...

Pope Francis has named Cardinal Robert McElroy as the new leader of the Catholic Church in Washington DC. Cardinal McElroy has criticised US president-elect Donald Trump's political agenda in the ...

However, what was a maximum for his predecessors seems to have become a minimum for Pope Francis, who announced the nomination of 21 new cardinals during his Sunday Angelus address October 6.

VATICAN CITY, - Pope Francis on Monday named a Catholic cardinal who has criticized Donald Trump's political agenda as the new leader for the Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., days before Trump ...

Shortly after Mr. Trump won the 2016 presidential election, Cardinal McElroy, then a new bishop in San Diego appointed by Pope Francis, told a Catholic immigration conference that it was ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis warned that bullying in schools prepares students for war rather than peace, in a speech to Catholic educators gathered at the Vatican on Saturday. Speaking to about ...

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