Presidents, prime ministers and cardinals have gathered for the funeral of Pope Francis as huge crowds descended upon Vatican ...

From a son of a rubber tapper in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), to a Bishop-elect who was rejected by the Diocese to ...

Rome and the Vatican are being transformed into a fortress for Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday.With world leaders ...

White Crucifixion” marked the start of a series of paintings in which he envisioned Christ as an emblem of Jewish persecution ...

Talks are taking place for Northern Ireland's first minister to be invited to the Pope's funeral in Rome on Saturday.

C hurch bells tolled across Rome, and tributes have been pouring in from leaders around the world after the Vatican on Monday ...

writes NCR's Vatican correspondent Christopher White. That change seems more clear after his death on April 21. In the next few weeks, the cardinals of the Catholic Church will gather in Rome to ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell, the senior Vatican official who announced Pope Francis' death on Monday morning, will serve as head of the Catholic Church unt ...

New Cincinnati Archbishop Robert Casey grew up in an Irish Catholic family in Chicago in the 1980s, when about twice as many Catholics attended Mass as they do today, and every neighborhood church ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday. He was 88, and had suffered a ...

There are seven sacraments in the Catholic tradition and the word sacrament, from the Latin sacramentum, signifies a doorway to the sacred. For countless children in Ireland’s Catholic primary ...