VATICAN CITY — (AP) — With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis, ...

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 ...

Cardinal Raymond Burke will celebrate a special Traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 25 in a return to a prior custom, suspended since 2022, of an annual pilgrimage of Catholics ...

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 ...

Jeff Scoby was among the faithful gathered the evening of April 22 to pray over the soul of Pope Francis as the day’s last sun rays shone through the stained glass windows of St. Mary’s Basilica in ...

As per the report, the man climbed the altar steps, dropped his pants, and urinated on the sacred site. The Vatican gendarmes ...

Mourners for Pope Francis flocked to the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark on Tuesday night for a mass given by Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, a friend and colleague who was appointed New ...

NOTRE DAME, Ind. (WSBT) — History was made at the Vatican on Thursday. The College of Cardinals elected a new pope on day two of the conclave. Pope Leo XIV is the first ever American pope. Chicago ...

A man urinated on the Altar of Confession during a holy mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on Friday as tourists ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - In Savannah, the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist held a special mass to celebrate Pope Leo XIV. “We know that the Lord is in charge. We are merely his instruments, ...

The stunned crowd could only balk as the man was quickly torn away from the altar by “plainclothes police officers” stationed ...