Born in 1991, an Italian boy will be proclaimed the Catholic Church's first saint of the millennial generation on April 27.

Pope Francis has approved the first step towards sainthood for Antoni Gaudi, the modernist architect behind Barcelona's ...

Pope John Paul II, head of the Roman Catholic Church for more than a quarter century, died at his Vatican apartment.

“You can’t force someone to love you. And that’s why there’s a hell,” said Pope, pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian Roman Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., near Capitol Hill. “It’s not about an ...

A new presidential administration in Washington has opened up an unexpected geopolitical chasm putting U.S. bishops in an ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, gives his homily during a Mass to pray for Pope Francis with ambassadors ...

He rose in the Roman Catholic Church before allegations of abusing minors and seminarians and an investigation led Pope Francis to strip him of his priesthood. By Robert D. McFadden Theodore E.

Recent updates have indicated that Francis has seen his condition improve despite complications, with the pope saying he no longer feels in imminent danger.

The announcement of the pope’s coming release made for a ... after weeks in which he lay in critical condition and the Roman Catholic Church seemed on the brink of a conclave to pick his successor.

The pope, his hand bruised with needle pricks ... Dr. Alfieri discharged the leader of the Roman Catholic Church to return to the Vatican. He implored his patient, who had resisted going to ...

Roman Catholic cardinals have issued calls to “free ourselves from much fake news” on the pope’s health and blamed ... strategy of the Vatican. The church has broken from its long tradition ...