With conflicts and diplomatic crises raging around the world, Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin is for many the favorite ...

All eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within days to elect a new pontiff ...

The possibility of robust and thriving Vatican-China relations, first initiated by Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, ...

China and the Philippines have engaged in months of confrontations in the contested waters, and Manila is currently taking part in sweeping joint military drills with the United States that Beijing ...

Hundreds of thousands of mourners and world leaders including US President Donald Trump packed St. Peter's Square on April 26 ...

In a 2024 meeting with Syro-Malabar Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil of Ernakulam-Angamaly, Pope Francis summed up his view ...

Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, coadjutor archpriest of Rome's Basilica of St. Mary Major, discussed the pope's decision to be ...

Pope Francis' send-off will be grand affair, featuring 224 cardinals and 750 bishops and priests alongside world dignitaries ...

Many Portuguese politicians supported the thousands who defied govt order to mark country's Carnation Revolution ...

Some 250,000 people have paid their respects to Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Basilica before his coffin was sealed ahead of ...

The US president will be center-stage for major diplomatic gathering with some 50 heads of state at the Vatican ...

The funeral of Pope Francis, who died on April 21 aged 88, will take place on Saturday. After a multi-lingual mass in St ...