John Paul II's body occupies the tomb where Pope John XXIII had lain before his remains were placed near the main altar of the basilica after he was beatified in 2000.

In 1958, the papal election took a bizarre turn when white smoke was followed by black smoke—an unprecedented event in ...

Castel Gandolfo prepares to welcome Pope Leo XIV July 6. The imposing papal villa in this town on the shores of Lake Albano, ...

As soon as Robert Prevost was elevated to pope in May, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the team he works with for PBS's Finding Your Roots began digging into the pope's family history.

John Paul II — Our Soul Pope St. John Paul II was the first pope I ever knew, and I remember the way my grandmothers would speak of him with awe, almost as if he carried the divine on his shoulders.

On June 4, Vatican officials gathered with archaeologists and historians to celebrate the restoration of the tomb of St. Eusebius, a fourth-century pope who, after only four months as pontiff, was ...

St. Mary of the Assumption Parish included this photo commemorating the 1982 meeting of a newly ordained Robert Prevost and Pope John Paul II in its 1986 book marking its 100th anniversary.

FILE – The body of Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, lies in his tomb in Assisi, Italy, on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file) ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint Carlo Acutis. Leo made the announcement during a meeting of ...

Pope Leo XIV reflects on the paralytic man being healed in the Gospel of St. John in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on June 18, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen In his Wednesday Audience ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint, Carlo Acutis, in what is expected to be Leo's first saint ...

First millennial saint Carlo Acutis will be canonized Sept. 7, the pope says The body of Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, lies in his tomb in Assisi, Italy, on March 1, 2025.