VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican opened St. Peter’s Basilica to the general public Wednesday to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, with thousands of people filling the central aisle and ...

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 ...

The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a very big budget problem. It primarily finances the ...

One of the greatest challenges facing Pope Leo XIV is financial. He has inherited the Holy See’s chronic, 50 million to 60 ...

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns around the world, and they dedicate their lives to a variety of religious ...

Pope Leo XIV blessed the more than 150 cyclists competing in the Giro d’Italia as the three-week race’s final stage began ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, has celebrated his inaugural mass in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square ... And he's making his way up to St. Peter's Basilica for his inaugural mass. And here he ...

We're still at the Rorschach test stage of the papacy, in which people can project almost anything they want to see amid the ...

Truong, a lifelong Catholic, had hoped one day to spend Easter in Vatican City. That hope was fulfilled this spring, when he ...

Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office of bishops.

Pope Leo XIV declared himself a Roman on Sunday as he completed the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop ...