When Pope Benedict XVI first met with journalists a few days after his April 19, 2005, election, he immediately expressed words of gratitude for the media's work after the death of Pope John Paul ...

The appointment of long-serving chancellor Msgr. Renzo Pegoraro appears to be a sign of continuity with the outgoing ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

In no time, he’d become indispensable to the ... In 2005, after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected as Pope Benedict XVI, a bishop told me, “Remember, Cardinal Ratzinger and Pope Benedict ...

As the Catholic Church welcomed its 267th pope, Leo XIV -- elected May 8 -- attention quickly turned to the first moments of his pontificate. The first weeks of a papacy often give ...

Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave vote last night.

The longest conclave in that time took 14 ballots, lasted five days and produced Pope Pius XI in 1922. Francis was elected after two days of voting. His predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, was chosen ...

"Every time I read the ... of duty made him a pope who, at the risk of sometimes being misunderstood, leaves an impressive doctrinal legacy. The entire life of Benedict XVI will be marked by ...

In 2011, the two couples traveled to Rome, where Prevost was living at the time. He picked them up ... wrote about the installation of Pope Benedict XVI as the Sun-Times religion reporter and ...

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How will Leo’s formative three decades in the United States before life in Peru and Rome shape his church of 1.4 billion souls? Yes, the cardinals must be thinking an American could solve the Holy See ...