Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary Major Basilica a day after he was bade farewell by the powerful of the world and a crowd of hundreds of thousands.
Catholic faithful around the world expressed indignation this week after videos and pictures of individuals taking selfies next to Pope Francis’s open casket began circulating on social media.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry offered brief condolences over the death of Pope Francis on Tuesday, over a day after the announcement of his passing, crediting him meagerly for “useful” exchanges with Beijing.
The Vatican kept the doors of St. Peter’s Basilica open all night Wednesday due to higher-than-expected turnout of Catholic faithful determined to bid farewell to the late Pope Francis.
The Vatican opened St. Peter’s Basilica to the general public Wednesday to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, with thousands of people filling the central aisle and Swiss Guards standing at attention.
Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, never visited his birthplace Argentina in the 12 years of his papacy.
The Marxist leaders of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Colombia all offered statements honoring the legacy of the late Pope Francis on Monday, embracing him as a friend to their cause.
The Vatican on Tuesday published the final thoughts of the late Pope Francis on the afterlife, in an essay he wrote in February, in which he declared that “death is not the end.”
In the wake of Pope Francis’ passing on Easter Monday, the Catholic Church will begin the process of selecting the next Bishop of Rome, thereby setting the future course of the Church and its 1.3 billion followers.
President Donald J. Trump has ordered all United States flags on government and military properties to be lowered to half-staff in memory of His Holiness Pope Francis on the morning after his passing.
The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing of ballots with a needle and thread after they’re counted, and then burning them to produce either the white or black smoke to signal if there’s a new leader for the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics.
Heads of state and religious leaders around the world offered condolences and messages honoring Pope Francis following the announcement of his passing on Monday, honoring him as compassionate, warm, and a “moral beacon” in a divided world.
With the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88 early Monday morning, the question is posed: who will replace him and how will it be decided?
In Paris, the bells of the recently restored Notre Dame rung out and football matches across Italy are cancelled in mourning.
Pope Francis has died, the Vatican announced early Monday morning in Rome. He was 88.
A record number of adults in France are expected to have received baptism across the country on Easter, primarily driven by young people joining the Catholic Church.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his family were at the Vatican for Good Friday services to celebrate Easter. The convalescing pope did not attend.
Rosario Murillo, wife of communist dictator Daniel Ortega and “co-president” of Nicaragua, praised the “heroism of Jesus Christ” on Tuesday in an address ignoring the fact that her regime has banned Holy Week processions in the country.
The communist regime of Cuba banned Christians in Havana from celebrating the traditional Solemn Stations of the Cross on Sunday, Cuban outlets reported.
A convalescing Pope Francis greeted the crowd in St. Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Good Palm Sunday, a good Holy Week,” in yet another reassuring public sign of his recovery from a life-threatening battle with double pneumonia.
Nicaragua is forcing the nation’s Catholic priests to present themselves at local police stations weekly for questioning and submitting their homilies for review, the online Catholic outlet The Pillar reported on Wednesday.
The U.S. Catholic Church is shutting down some of its migration work amid pressure from ordinary Catholics and the U.S. government.
Pope Francis made a surprise entrance to St. Peter´s Square during a special Jubilee Mass for the sick and health workers on Sunday, marking his first public appearance at the Vatican since his release from the hospital two weeks ago.
A Tulsa, Oklahoma, man was arrested after a Catholic priest was shot and fatally wounded outside his parish rectory in Seneca, Kansas, on Thursday.
The Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa reported on Monday that the communist regime turned the seized Episcopal Curia of Matagalpa into the location of a social security-affiliated company and stole all of the relics housed therein.
Pope Francis has shown “a truly surprising improvement” since returning to the Vatican to convalesce after surviving a life-threatening bout with double-pneumonia, the doctor who coordinated the pontiff’s five-week hospitalization said Saturday.
When a tiny band of self-proclaimed satanists announced they would hold a “black mass” in front of the Kansas State Capitol, they wanted to inflame Christians. And they did, but it was not with the type of fire they intended.
President Donald Trump’s pro-American immigration policy is “a crusade which comes from the darkest parts of our American psyche and soul and history,” according to Pope Francis’s new Archbishop of Washington, DC.
Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican from the hospital on Sunday after surviving a five-week, life-threatening bout of pneumonia.
Kansas City Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann recently filed a lawsuit against a satanic group for allegedly stealing a Holy Eucharist.
President Trump recently offered a hopeful glimpse into the treatment Catholics can expect in his America when he pledged to investigate the attack on St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Wichita, Kansas, that left a Satanic website address scrawled on the wall.
Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, after 38 days battling a life-threatening case of pneumonia in both lungs, his doctors said.
The Vatican’s press office released a photo of Pope Francis on Sunday after celebrating Mass, taken from an angle that mostly obscures his face and shows him sitting in a wheelchair.
Pope Francis continued his recovery from double pneumonia Sunday after doctors reported some positive news: After more than three weeks in the hospital, the 88-year-old pope is responding well to treatment and has shown a “gradual, slight improvement” in recent days.
The Holy See published an audio message recorded by Pope Francis on Thursday thanking Catholics and others praying for his health as the octogenarian enters day 21 of an extended hospital stay to treat a severe respiratory condition.
Conclave is what I call an HBO-TV movie, a handsomely produced, left-leaning feature that never feels like a movie-movie.
Nicaragua on Thursday announced its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council in response to a recently published report by a group of U.N. experts calling for international action against the worsening repression led by dictator Daniel Ortega and his wife and “co-president” Rosario Murillo.
Vice President JD Vance gave glory to God for helping him “turn a new page in Washington, DC,” responded to Pope Francis’s critiques of the Trump administration’s immigration policy, and explained how the president’s foreign policy is “in accord with Christian social teaching” at the annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast (NCPB).
Pope Francis remained hospitalised and in critical condition Monday as he battles pneumonia in both lungs, the Vatican said amid global concern over the ailing pontiff’s health.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni paid a visit to Pope Francis in the Gemelli Hospital in Rome Wednesday, bringing well wishes from the government and the Italian people.
