Pope Benedict XVI greets the crowd after the Blessing of Youth with Disabilities in the chapel at Saint Joseph Seminary in ...

To mark Easter Sunday, we recall the spring of 2008, when Pope Benedict visited the seminary in Yonkers and said Mass at ...

Not only does Easter Sunday commemorate Christians' belief in the Resurrection of Jesus three days after his death by ...

Even before the formal announcement by Clarence House , diplomatic sources said the prime minister would be attending the ...

What happens to coins when a monarch or spiritual leader passes? Discover how powers across Europe—like the Vatican, the UK, ...

Pope Francis is brought on stage in St. Peter's Square by his nurse, Massimiliano Strappetti, at the end of the closing Mass ...

In a moving homily read by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the pontiff described how suffering can become “a place of encounter” ...

Pope Francis made a surprise public appearance on Sunday as ... that the pontiff might hang up his papal crook after the example of his predecessor Benedict XVI, who quit in 2013 citing his declining ...

Archbishop of Washington Robert McElroy issued a statement Friday confirming McCarrick’s death a day earlier but provided no ... McCarrick participated in the 2005 conclave that elected Pope Benedict ...

The Vatican will mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Pope Saint John Paul II with a Mass in St Peter's Basilica on ...

A date for her canonization has not been set. She was born on Aug. 11, 1903, in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, and died ...

For the past month and a half, the world has waited for what seemed like the inevitable passing of Pope Francis ... but a veritable death sentence for an 88-year-old missing part of one lung.