It was disconcerting to watch JD Vance being received by the ailing Pope Francis at the Vatican this past Easter. The pope, like a character in a cheap airport thriller, had 24 hours to live.

(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 ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, America’s editor at large, James Martin. S.J., wrote a reflection (posted online) on the influence of Francis’ Jesuit formation on his papacy, particularly ...

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 ...