"It's amazing to be able to see so many people gather and celebrate Pope Benedict and celebrate the church." Fr. Ben Valentine of Dubuque, Iowa, said he just happened to be in Rome on an already ...

ROMA, 04 GEN - An Italian artist has dotted Rome with images of a black pope in his fresh satirical attacks on the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church's ruling bodies. "Habemus Papam, nero!" ...

Pope Francis on Friday issued a document reorganizing the Vicariate of Rome in what he called a time of “epochal change.” The apostolic constitution, In Ecclesiarum Communione, replaces a 1998 ...

ROME, (WWLP) – Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s funeral mass takes place at St. Peter’s Square Thursday, with Pope Francis serving as celebrant. Thousands of people flocked to St. Peter’s ...

The remains of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI were interred in the crypt beneath St Peter’s Basilica in Rome following a funeral Mass on Thursday morning celebrated by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re ...

BALTIMORE - While the Catholic community continues to mourn the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Archbishop William Lori, from the Archdiocese of Baltimore, has traveled to Rome for the funeral.

Pope Francis is keeping his promise to South Sudan. A major reason why he is traveling to the impoverished, war-torn African ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Friday issued a document reorganizing the Vicariate of Rome in what he called a time of “epochal change.” The apostolic constitution, In Ecclesiarum Communione ...

ROME - "Habemus Papam, nero!" ("We have a black Pope!"): is the artistic cry launched in Rome by an innovative performance of the artist Pep Marchegiani, who is part of a long tradition of satire ...