The last four popes of the Catholic Church — John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and our new pope, Leo XIV — had hardworking ...

A Mankato native who spent most of his journalism career covering the Vatican provided some dope on popes, his review of a ...

Northern and Southern Dioceses Environmental Networks organised an online evening event on 4 June marking the tenth ...

Pope Leo XIV's tribunal has opened a file on the role played by PR Francesca Immacolata Chaouqui in what now seems to be a ...

Pope Leo XIV has experience in both first- and third-world countries, and is the first pope from the U.S. The new pope is expected to address challenges such as the priest shortage, women's roles ...

Steve Bannon, architect of US president Donald Trump’s America First movement, spoke to Edward Luce, US national editor, at ...

Pyrotechnic chemistry drives the Vatican’s recipes for the black and white smoke used to announce papal election outcomes ...

Intelligence agencies have long gathered information to help their governments get a sense of who the next pope might be ...

Before she texted Ritchey that day, Vencill remembers being “at the ironing board when the white smoke went up and announced that it was Cardinal Bergoglio.” Over half a million people around ...

Before she texted Ritchey that day, Vencill remembers being “at the ironing board when the white smoke went up and announced that it was Cardinal Bergoglio.” Over half a million people around ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was elected in 2013 as Pope Francis, he was a near total Vatican outsider. He had never been a Vatican official, instead spending decades in ...

At the time, Pope Francis was known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. The above photograph is authentic. However, it was taken in 2008, not 1998, and showed a young Francis, who was then known as ...