These words, spoken by Pope Francis, who died a month ago today, revealed his tender heart for children and his dedication to the most vulnerable among us. An important and well-known part of Pope ...

(CNS/Bob Roller) Formerly, the enthronement ceremony included crowning the pope with the papal tiara or "triregnum," a golden ... The pallium is fitted on Pope Francis during his inaugural Mass ...

Known as the triregnum, the special tiara used during a papal coronation ... Already he has indicated that he will seek to continue Pope Francis’ focus on social and economic justice, while also ...

When Pope Francis died, the morning after Easter, prominent right-wing Catholics leapt at the chance to lobby for a more conservative, even Trumpian, leader of the Church. Far-right pundit Jack ...

departing from the living arrangements used by Pope Francis for 12 years. The papal apartment, which is a series of rooms wrapping around the Vatican’s Sixtus V Courtyard, was the traditional ...

Less than a month after the death of Pope Francis, a baseball signed by the late Catholic leader sold for $18,750 at RR Auctions. Randy Kaplan, a prolific collector of baseballs from world leaders ...

The papal apartment, which is a series of rooms wrapping around the Vatican’s Sixtus V Courtyard, was the traditional home of pontiffs for over a century before Pope Francis eschewed those ...

Prior to his elevation to the papacy, Pope Leo XIV stayed out of the spotlight on certain reforms backed by his predecessor but maintained a close relationship with Pope Francis and support for ...

On a sweltering January day in 2018, Pope Francis addressed 100,000 of the faithful in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, not far from where gold mining had ravaged an expanse of Amazon rainforest about the ...

The papal apartments was sealed shortly after Pope Francis' death in April Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was previously ...