Last week was quite special for the estimated 1.2 billion Catholics around the world when white smoke billowed across St.

Still, it was an exciting moment for the Americans who were at the Vatican that day. Mariner says he and his wife were in a ...

Five Meath priests were among the crowds in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican yesterday when the white smoke started to billow ...

From the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, the man who had just appeared in a plain white cassock—with no other adornments—bows deeply to receive the blessing from the countless crowd whose ...