VATICAN CITY (AP) — In the last two years, defense lawyers have acquired 3,225 pages of WhatsApp messages between two women who were tangential to the Vatican’s “trial of the century,” but were actually intimately aware of the investigation and in some ways involved. Their four years of conversations, from 2020-2024, provide a parallel, behind-the-scenes…
St Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City | Image credit: Julian Elliott Photography/Getty Images An estimated 1.4 billion people travelled internationally in 2024, bringing tourism numbers back up to their pre-pandemic level. While this means more people are able to explore the world again, it also means that some of the world’s most sought-after destinations are…
Catholics across U.S. celebrate first Sunday mass under American pope – CBS News Watch CBS News Faithfuls across the U.S. turned out to share the first Sunday mass with the first American pope in Catholic Church history. Omar Villafranca reports. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive…
Digging into Pope Leo XIV’s New Orleans Creole roots – CBS News Watch CBS News Pope Leo XIV is preparing to address the faithful in St. Peter’s Square. Sunday’s mass will be his first as head of the world’s Roman Catholics. Katie Weis has more on his background in New Orleans. Be the first to…
After less than 24 hours of seclusion in the Vatican, cardinals ended the 2025 papal conclave with the election of a new pontiff. The man chosen, Cardinal Robert Prevost, will be known as Pope Leo XIV — the first pope ever from the United States. Here’s what to know about him. Where is Pope Leo XIV…
Vatican City — Of the 266 popes who have led the Catholic Church, not one of them had been from the United States. Until Thursday. The cardinal electors gathered for the papal conclave elected an American from among their own ranks on Thursday to serve as the new pontiff. Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected and accepted his…
About 1,000 people flocked to Hong Kong’s main Catholic cathedral for the late Pope Francis’ requiem mass on Monday evening, with mourners at the service hearing of the pontiff’s “deep care and concern about the church in China”. Retired Cardinal John Tong Hon, who presided over the 1½-hour mass at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception…
Pope Francis health has continued to improve in the week since he left the hospital after a weekslong stay, the Vatican said Tuesday. During Francis’ 38-day stay at Policlinico A. Gemelli in Rome, he was treated for pneumonia and other infections. He experienced two episodes — a breathing crisis and a bronchial spasm that caused…
The pope’s doctors did not think he was going to make it. “It’s terrible,” Pope Francis gasped during a breathing crisis last month. The pope, his hand bruised with needle pricks and his oxygen saturation dipping to a dangerously low 78 during his long hospitalization, acknowledged in a failing voice that he might die. He…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — How’s Pope Francis doing? Can you give him my get-well wishes? Can I speak with him directly? The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls with questions like that as the pope remains hospitalized in Rome. “They feel like children waiting to know about their…