Skeptics consider the relic, allegedly used to dab Jesus' sweat and blood, a fraud invented during the Crusader period.

On Saturday, the Vatican said Francis hoped to be present for a blessing after the Easter Sunday Mass. On Thursday afternoon, Francis made a surprise visit to Rome’s Regina Coeli prison to show ...

World leaders and Catholic faithful gathered in Rome to bid farewell to Pope Francis, whose funeral Mass on Saturday underscored his lifelong commitment to the 'most peripheral of the peripheries.' ...

He is seated in a wheelchair in front of a simple altar with a crucifix on the wall ... "This morning Pope Francis ...

Larry Hoy created the crucifix for Pope Francis' historic 2015 Mass in Philadelphia. He said the pope's loss hits "close to home." ...

Years ago, collector Jesmond Farrugia was cleaning a silver-coated crucifix he had inherited from his late brother-in-law when his mother-in-law recognised the exposed wooden cross that began to ...