The Vatican has announced a date to begin the conclave. The College of Cardinals will begin the secretive voting process of choosing Pope Francis' successor on Wednesday, May 7, according to Vatican ...

About 250,000 people attended the funeral service for Pope Francis on Saturday morning in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, before the late leader of the Catholic Church was transported to the Papal ...

Watch again as Cardinals met at the Vatican in Rome on Tuesday (22 April) to discuss the funeral plans for Pope Francis. In his final testament, the pontiff expressed his wish to be buried at the ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 21 — The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano called Canada's legalization of homosexual “marriage” a distortion of God's plan for the family, Associated Press reported.

Pope Francis was laid to rest inside his favourite Rome church, Santa Maria Maggiore in Italy, after a funeral mass at St. Peter’s Square According to the Vatican, Pope Francis is the first in over a ...

Watch live as the Vatican's child protection commission releases its second annual report on efforts to prevent clergy sexual abuse.

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in Rome on Thursday afternoon, indicating the 133 cardinals locked inside had elected a successor to Pope Francis. The new pope, the 267th, ...

Pope Leo closes Vatican fundraising group, rolling back a Francis decision Pope Leo has dissolved a high-level Catholic commission established to encourage donations to the Vatican, the Vatican said ...

Vatican says Pope Francis experienced two episodes of "respiratory insufficiency" due to the buildup of mucus and other fluids, complicating his breathing. NBC News' Claudio Lavanga reports that the ...

AFP, Sept. 9 — The Vatican condemned plans by a team of British scientists to create a human embryo using genetic material from two women, Agence France Presse reported. A team of scientists at ...