And although St. Peter’s Basilica is the most common choice for papal burials, with more than half of popes interred there, Francis told an interviewer in 2023 that he wished to be buried at ...

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process. These are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of news in the coming days.

After that, it was hit or miss for quite a long time. Some Popes would change their name, but most would keep their birth ...

Dolton residents were skeptical at Tuesday's board meeting, questioning whether the financially strained village could afford ...

The Vatican says leaked documents that seemingly undermined Pope Francis’ stated reason for restricting the old Latin Mass ...

White smoke began pouring from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Thursday, signaling the College of Cardinals has chosen a successor to Pope Francis. And now the world waits to learn who he is ...

In 2013, Pope Francis was elected after five ballots held over two days. In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI was elected after four ballots. In 1978, Pope John Paul II was elected over two days after eight ...

Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home can now be bought - Pope Leo XIV’s hometown is poised to acquire his childhood home ...

A look at the recent sale of a one-of-a-kind Topps NOW card celebrating Pope Leo XIV and some of the other big sales of the ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

ROME -- Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in Buenos ...