Pope Leo XIV has criticized prison overcrowding during a special Mass for detainees, guards and their families.

A Swedish youth choir marked the feast of St. Lucy by singing at a Mass at the Vatican on Thursday, Dec. 11. Students from ...

Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day morning, Dec. 25 — a custom dating to the pontificate of St. John Paul II. The Vatican announced Tuesday Pope Leo’s Mass ...

Tbells of Rome tolled on Easter Monday, 2025, as news spread of Pope Francis'death at 88, marking the end of a transformative papacy that began in 2013. Thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square for ...

Faithful pay their respects to Pope Francis lying in state inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, April 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) VATICAN CITY (AP) — So many mourners ...

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The cardinals, including the 133 expected to vote in the conclave, filed into the basilica on Wednesday morning, to music being sung by a choir. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re presided over the service ...

So many mourners lined up to see Pope Francis lying in state in a simple wooden coffin inside St. Peter’s Basilica that the Vatican kept the doors open all night due to higher-than-expected turnout, ...