Follow our live coverage as Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope in history, begins his pontificate.
The Saturday processions were held to mark the Jubilee of Confraternities. Two processions total marched through the Roman streets and ended at the Circus Maximus
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Cardinals elected Leo to the supreme pontificate on Thursday afternoon, with white smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel signaling the closing of the conclave.
Today, May 8, the first American was elected taking the name Pope Leo XIV — here is a prayer for the new pontiff.
Here is the full text of Cardinal Dominique Mamberti’s homily for the ninth and final Novendiales Mass on Sunday, May 4, the third Sunday of Easter.
“To pray for the dead means, therefore, to love those who have died, and that is what we are doing now for Pope Francis,” Cardinal Ángel Fernández Artime said.
St. Athanasius, celebrated on May 2, was a fourth-century bishop who is known as “the father of orthodoxy” for his dedication to the doctrine of Christ’s divinity.
Follow here for live updates of the latest news regarding the upcoming papal conclave.
Crowds of faithful lined the route to St. Mary Major as the late pontiff made his final journey to the basilica he visited more than 100 times during his papacy.
The rite began in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta and ended with the Holy Father’s body before the Altar of Confession in St. Peter’s Basilica.
Thousands of Catholics gathered together in prayer for the Holy Father, who passed away at age 88 due to complications from a medical crisis earlier in the spring.
The Vatican has released the testament of Pope Francis.
Pope Francis passed away at 7:35 a.m. local time on Easter Monday, April 21, at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta.
Despite the death of Pope Francis, a reconfigured Jubilee of Teenagers will still take place in Rome from April 25–27.
The first Latin American and Jesuit pope was determined to lead a more welcoming, pastoral, and merciful Church outward to a broken world.
Pope Francis, who led the Catholic Church for just over 12 years as its first Latin American pontiff, has died at age 88.
The liturgy was celebrated by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re.
On April 11, the Catholic Church honors the memory of the 11th-century bishop and martyr St. Stanislaus of Krakow, who died for the faith at the hands of King Boleslaus II.
The allegations agains former cardinal Theodore McCarrick span decades and resulted in several criminal charges.