Inverted crosses visible as Pope Francis lay in state symbolise Saint Peter, the first pontiff, and are not a reference to ...

Pope Leo XIV says that his election is both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrates his first Mass as the head of the ...

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo led the Sioux City diocese as bishop for six years during the early 2000s. The 75-year-old is ...

A group of 48 people from Luzerne and Lackawanna counties traveling with Scranton agency TravelWorld arrived in Vatican City when the papal conclave began Wednesday and were in Rome on Thursday when ...

"You have called me to carry the cross and to be blessed with that ... The selection surprised the Roman Catholic world as Leo was not viewed a frontrunner for the papacy. After white smoke ...

Around 6 a.m., thousands of people began to file into St. Peter’s Square for Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass. Thousands of volunteers from the Red Cross and other groups took positions in the streets ...

He acknowledged the great responsibility Cardinals had placed on him before delivering a brief but dense homily on the need ...

VATICAN CITY — (AP) — 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 ...

VATICAN CITY — Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb ... the tomb and a reproduction of the late pontiff’s pectoral cross on the wall above it. Rosario Correale, from Salerno ...

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb ... glow over the tomb and a reproduction of the late pontiff's pectoral cross on the wall above it.Rosario Correale, from Salerno, Italy, was ...