The Vatican confirmed Pope Francis would preside over the Easter Vigil service on Saturday night, after he decided at the last minute to skip his participation in the Good Friday procession at the ...

ROME and LONDON -- Pope Francis appeared on Sunday in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for an Easter Sunday blessing, after a brief earlier meeting with Vice President JD Vance.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis used his first Easter homily to call for peace around the world and to decry greed, before taking a spin through the hundreds of thousands of worshipers in the ...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Pope Francis met at the Vatican on Easter Sunday, shortly before the pontiff delivered a sermon urging political leaders to support vulnerable populations.

Following is the official English language translation provided by the Vatican of Pope Francis' Easter Sunday message, delivered in Italian from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica.

VATICAN CITY (AP) – Pope Francis tempered his Easter Sunday message of Christian hope with a denunciation of “blind” terrorism, recalling victims of attacks in Europe, Africa and elsewhere ...

According to a May 19 Vatican communique, earlier that morning the pope and Vance held a private meeting, which lasted roughly 45 minutes, beginning around 7:56 a.m. and ending around 8:41 a.m ...

Pope Francis salutes as he arrives for an Easter mass, in St. Peter's square at the Vatican, Sunday, April 5, 2015.

Vatican Pool/Getty Images. 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.

The Vatican confirmed Pope Francis would preside over the Easter Vigil service on Saturday night, after he decided at the last minute to skip his participation in the Good Friday procession at the ...