The wooden crucifix, created by the renowned Vasai-based sculptors the Sequeiras, is 20 feet high, making it visible to ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has something in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy. He’s been in positions of ...

R obert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, made history on Thursday, May 8, when he was elected as the first ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain and the Sistine Chapel usually top the “must see” list of visitors to Rome and the Vatican. But as 133 of the world’s cardinals prepared to enter ...

Inverted crosses visible as Pope Francis lay in state symbolise Saint Peter, the first pontiff, and are not a reference to ...

all decorated with a few pieces of dark wood furniture - and a wooden crucifix hanging behind his desk. In the office there are four chairs - including a more comfortable armchair - a simple desk ...

Chatlain at the Archdiocese of Winnipeg's annual Public Way of the Cross walk ... with the Catholic Church. "I always called him a 'bush bishop,'" said Bernard Wood of St. Theresa Point ...

Applause rang out as the wooden coffin, inlaid with a large cross, was brought out of St. Peter's Basilica ... planned period of transition for the 1.4-billion member Roman Catholic Church, marked by ...

Royalty, presidents, prime ministers and a legion of faithful paid their last respects to Pope Francis at a funeral mass in St. Peter's Square. Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, who delivered the eulogy, ...

This is the extraordinary moment Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky met inside St Peter's Basilica ahead of the Pope’s ...

Throngs of the faithful made their way to the 16th century basilica’s main altar where Francis’ open wooden casket was ... bowed and made a sign of the cross, followed by bishops, ushers ...