For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date of Easter. But this ...

Thousands of people recited prayers while carrying large wooden crosses and walking through the streets of the Old City of ...

On his trip, Vance — who is a convert to Catholicism — will also be visiting cultural and religious sites and meet with ...

Two Russian ballistic missiles struck the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on the morning of Palm Sunday, claiming at ...

Holy Week is a time when the pope would be expected to be front and center of events. But as Francis continues to recover ...

Pope Francis met for nearly a half-hour with some 70 inmates at the Regina Coeli prison in Rome’s Trastevere neighborhood.

His election reflected a broader geographical shift in the church. Although the Vatican has been Catholicism’s spiritual and ...

The Vatican on Thursday opened the most solemn period of Holy Week with a recovering Pope Francis largely on the sidelines, ...

Pope Francis visited Rome’s main prison and kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least ...

Francis delegated to two cardinals his role in presiding over this weekend's Easter masses, The Vatican Press Office said on ...