Pope Leo XIV shared lunch with 200 poor and vulnerable people, including 40 children, during his summer break at Castel ...

Cardinals have set Pope Francis' funeral for Saturday in St. Peter's Square, and a public viewing from Wednesday in St. Peter ...

During his visit to the Italian Mediterranean island of Lampedusa on Saturday, Pope Leo XIV blessed a commemorative plaque in ...

If you grew up Catholic, you most likely knew the names of every pope that was around since you could remember; you also probably know the really famous ones who were around before you were born. But ...

The chapel next to where Francis was being buried is home to a Byzantine-style icon of the Madonna, the Salus Populi Romani. Francis was particularly devoted, and reportedly would pray before the icon ...

Pope Francis, Latin America’s first pontiff, died at age 88 after a cerebral stroke. Francis stressed humility over hubris ...

Editor’s Note: On April 26, 2025, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, primary celebrant of Pope Francis’ funeral, offered the following homily. The official transcript is reprinted here with permission. In ...

The story that dominated the Catholic news headlines in 2025 was, of course, the death of Pope Francis and the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV. These were NCR's most read — not necessarily the most ...

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JD Vance has admitted he felt "awful" for meeting Pope Francis just hours before his death. The US vice-president, writing in a new book about his conversion to Catholicism, was one of the last public ...