When the Easter bells ring Sunday, they will include sounds from two of the most impressive religious structures in Minnesota ...

Local Catholics will gather at noon today at the Cathedral of St. Paul to remember Pope Francis, who died at the age of 88 ...

Pope Francis was the first non-European head of the Roman Catholic Church in more than a millennium. Jorge Mario Bergoglio ...

Two popes who played instrumental roles in building the world's largest church now gaze at one another with renewed clarity ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a ...

Priests from around the world mourned the passing of Pope Francis at the Vatican April 21 while reflecting on the late ...

The head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics is recovering from five weeks in hospital Pope Francis, who is recovering from life-threatening pneumonia, made an unscheduled visit to St Peter's ...

The restoration work on the tombs of Pope Urban VIII, sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and the basilica's founder, Pope Paul II ... the throne of St Peter, said Pietro Zander, head of the ...

Pope Francis made another surprise visit to St Peter's Square at the end of the ... he continued with his duties as the head of the Catholic Church and the Vatican — although without leading ...