Pope Leo XIV is starting a six-week vacation this weekend at the papal summer retreat south of Rome. It's his first break ...

ST. PETER, Minn. (KEYC) - After 54 years of an annual Fourth of July celebration, Independence Day has become a tradition in ...

St. Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro) is the massive open-air plaza located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City and was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini between 1656 and 1667.

A packed St. Peter's Square reacts with joy to the new pope Habemus Papam, the College of Cardinals has elected a pope, and the crowd in Vatican Square went wild.

Youth gather in St. Peter's Square the evening of April 26, hours after hundreds of thousands of Catholics, leaders and diplomats crammed into St. Peter's Square to mourn the death of Pope Francis.

SHERLOCK: The bells of St. Peter's Square are tolling - white smoke is billowing out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. It means a new pope, a new era for the Catholic Church.

Hundreds of thousands of the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square on Sunday to pay homage to Pope Francis on the second of nine days the Vatican has set aside to mourn the beloved pontiff, who ...

Under a partly cloudy sky and with temperatures in the 70s, several hundred worshipers gathered Sunday morning under two ...

Pope Francis speaks during the Angelus prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square, after celebrating a Mass for the Feast of Rome's Patrons Saints Peter and Paul, at the Vatican ...

Hundreds of thousands of mourners packed into St. Peter’s Square Saturday morning in Rome to say farewell to Pope Francis, remembered as an everyman who had an uncompromising sense of equality ...

“More than a pope, he was a fatherly figure for us migrants,” said Virginia Munos Ramires, 30, an El Salvador native, as she held onto a railing in St. Peter’s Square under the beating sun.

Pope Francis surprised those gathered Sunday in St. Peter’s Square with his first public appearance in the Vatican since he was released from the hospital two weeks ago.. Francis, 88, arrived in ...