The love of mothers is well represented among the 150 works in the Church’s 13th International Art Competition.

According to the Louis Grell Foundation, the artist developed a gift for drawing and design at an early age while going to school in Council Bluffs. With his parents aware of his advanced skill, the ...

Without an experience of the resurrection in their lives, the signs worked by St. Francis of Assisi and others couldn't have ...

The decision by Pope Francis to break with tradition and be buried at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome rather ...

Pope Francis’ tomb is made of Ligurian (Italian) marble with the sole inscription “FRANCISCUS” and a reproduction of his ...

ROME — Pope Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican Grottoes. After his ...

Pope Francis to be buried in Saint Mary Major church, not Saint Peter's basilica, in a break with tradition and sign of humility.

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the ...

saying he wanted to be near his favorite icon of the Virgin Mary, the Salus Populi Romani, a Byzantine-style painting of the ...

Francis stopped by the basilica on his way home from the Gemelli hospital on March 23, after his 38-day hospital stay, to ...

For six days in September, 2015, Pope Francis made a historic visit to the United States, visiting some of the country's ...