VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis inaugurated his papacy on Tuesday with an address calling for the defense of the weakes...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, barely 12 hours after his election, quietly left the Vatican early on Thursday to pray...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Black smoke rose from above the Sistine Chapel for a second day on Wednesday after a secret conclave...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Thick black smoke billowed into the night sky from the Sistine Chapel's chimney on Tuesday, sign...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Roman Catholic cardinals filed into the Vatican on Monday for preliminary meetings to sketch an iden...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict ended his difficult reign on Thursday pledging unconditional obedience to whoever succ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict bid an emotional farewell at his last general audience on Wednesday, saying he underst...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict will see out his life in prayer, "hidden from the world", he said on Thursda...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Even though he hasn't sent a single tweet yet, Pope Benedict had some 370,000 followers on Twitt...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - And so it came to pass that in the eighth year of Pope Benedict's reign, some tabloid and social...

ROME (Reuters) - Members of the English parliament wrote to Pope Clement VII in 1530 urging him to annul Henry VIII's mar...