Americans in St. Peter’s Square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal, Robert Provost, was ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

U.S. flags typically fly at half-staff in the wake of national tragedies or after deaths of government officials, military ...

Pope Francis died on Monday, April 21. American flags are to be flown at half-staff until the day of interment. Here's what to know.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — World dignitaries and Catholic faithful attended Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

last appeared in public Sunday to bless Easter worshippers at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. He had been hospitalized weeks earlier for a life-threatening case of pneumonia. Flags across ...

Flags across Wisconsin will fly at half-staff until sunset on the day of Francis' interment. A date for the funeral has not yet been announced. According to church doctrine, the pope's body will be on ...

In 1929, the Vatican City State was created with the signing ... the "Pontifical March", is the only one in the world sung in Latin, while its flag features two bands of yellow and white, bearing ...