Pope Francis died April 21 after suffering a stroke and heart failure, said the director of Vatican City State’s department ...

In his brief final testament, Pope Francis asked to be buried at Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major and said he had offered ...

Catholics in Washington, D.C., gathered at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for a memorial ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, who served as Pope Francis’s secretary of state, stands by the pope’s coffin in the chapel of his ...

As the bells tolled 88 times across the grounds of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on April ...

A standing-room congregation attended the Easter Sunday Mass on April 20, 2025 at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in ...

People gather in St. Peter’s Square to pray the rosary for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis at the Vatican April 21, ...

Even the moment of the formal verification of the pope’s death takes place in the context of a prayer service “at home” in ...

Later in the morning, local Churches started tolling the death knell from their bell towers. The request had come from ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Tapping into the spirit and spirituality of his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Francis made care ...

Leading his first Easter Sunday Mass as Washington’s new archbishop, Cardinal Robert W. McElroy said the Resurrection of ...

Pope Francis visited the National Shrine on Sept. 23, 2015 during his apostolic journey to the United States. At the National ...