Salesian Sister Alessandra Smerilli, secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, is pictured meeting ...

"Be Welcoming," a bronze sculpture of a traveler by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz, is seen in St. Peter's Square at ...

Archbishop Caccia pointed to Pope Francis’ very first encyclical — issued in 2013 not long after his election as the 266th ...

People touch a balloon with a picture of Pope Francis outside the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral in Argentina April 26, ...

White smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel March 13, 2013, at the Vatican. Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario ...

The Catholic Home Missions Appeal will be collected across the United States the weekend of April 26-27. Last year, the ...

Members of the College of Cardinals visited St. Mary Major in the afternoon April 27 to pray at Pope Francis’ tomb.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin talks to young people in St. Peter’s Square about Pope Francis’ teaching on mercy.

ROME (CNS) — The casket bearing the body of Pope Francis made its final journey through the streets of Rome accompanied by ...

Pope Francis recognized May 23, 2024, the second miracle needed for the canonization of Italian Blessed Carlo Acutis, who ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, leads the fifth general congregation meeting of cardinals in ...

Cardinals line the aisle as pallbearers carry the casket of Pope Francis into St. Peter's Basilica at the conclusion of ...