Ahead of the secretive conclave to elect the next pope, all mobile phone signals will be deactivated in the Vatican on Wednesday, CNN reported, citing Italian state media. The Vatican also plans to ...

To ensure full privacy during the conclave, special signal jammers will also be used around the Sistine Chapel. These will ...

St. Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church in Elmhurst was packed last Friday for a Vigil Mass of Repose for Pope Francis, who ...

"The court is attempting to handle the matter in such a way as to help Father Peter and to avoid scandal to the Church," the ...

The Vatican's Sistine Chapel has been set up to host 133 Cardinal electors for the upcoming conclave to elect the 267th Pope.

The closing of the conclave in the Sistine Chapel will be preceded in the morning by a mass for the pope who will be elected.

The Italian premier’s tireless triangulation reflects her almost preternatural ability to mediate, ingratiate, and negotiate.

A U.S. tourist visiting Rome needed 80 stitches after he was impaled while climbing over a fence at the Colosseum, local ...

Instead, he was buried inside the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. It followed a public funeral at St Peter’s Square attended by world leaders and tens of thousands of mourners.

Tens of thousands flocked to Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica -- Francis's final resting place -- in another testament to the popularity of the Argentine, who died aged 88 on Monday. An energetic ...