Nowadays, many faithful choose to bow and kiss the papal ring. However, Francis and Benedict XVI before him have tried to discourage the practice of kissing the pope's ring or hand when the pope ...

I don’t think he’s the kind of man who sends coded messages,” Cardinal Michael Czerny says in this exclusive interview with ...

The footage in fact shows the former pope Benedict XVI lying in state in January 2023. "The ceremony to honour Pope Francis," reads the Indonesian-language caption of a TikTok video shared on ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

But he said he realized that Benedict would have meditated and prayed for a long time before coming to that “brave and historic decision.” Pope Francis reaches to hold hands with Pope Emeritus ...

Instead, Francis will be buried in a single, zinc-lined wooden coffin. Once a pope dies, or retires as Benedict XVI did, a new pope must be selected. To fill a vacancy, the College of Cardinals ...

Pope Francis succeeded Pope Benedict XVI as leader of the Catholic Church in 2013, after his predecessor shocked the Catholic world by stepping down as pontiff and took the title of emeritus pope.

(Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) Pope Francis traveled to Castel Gandolfo in Italy to meet with his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI — which marked the first time a sitting pope met with ...

Such actions won him wild popularity among progressives and signaled new priorities for the Vatican after the sometimes-troubled papacy of Pope Benedict XVI. But Francis soon invited troubles of ...